THE UPPER WENSLEYDALE NEWSLETTER Issue 204

July 2014 Donation please: 30p suggested or more if you wish Published by Upper Wensleydale The Upper Wensleydale Newsletter Newsletter Editorial hear ‘Bainbrig’. Newcomers of course are Burnside Coach House, Two things might surprise you this month: amused that we go to Widdle on the B6255. Burtersett Road, Hawes DL8 3NT Issue 204 — July 2014 firstly, we are not writing about the Grand Now here’s the challenge; how about creat- Départ; we’ve enough bikey stuff! Our com- ing new names for people working in or Features mittee decided to do that after the event in things used in our local industries of cheese, Tel: 667785 August; secondly, since the last few editori- rope, tourism or local trades and retail? Or e-mail: [email protected] St Margaret’s Restoration 9 als have been a bit heavy, this is maybe a bit are there some already which we have ______lighter. missed. Some day in Hawes you might Have you noticed how a few words seem to bump into a ‘ropy’ in the station yard or a Printed by Wensleydale Press Blame it on Bartle 19 be everywhere? Take ‘devastated’ for exam- ‘curdy’ up Gayle Lane! Here comes the ______ple; so many situations seem to be plummy with a load of pipes! Look out for Committee: Alan S.Watkinson, W. Metcalfe & Sons 24 Barry Cruickshanks (web), Sue E .Duffield, ‘devastating’. As for ‘like’, some young peo- the Fall Guy to ask the way to Aysgarth ______Karen Jones, Alastair Macintosh, ple seem to manage to, like, get ‘like’ several Falls! Neil Piper, Karen Prudden, Competition 5 times in one breath! The internet generates Such words seem more friendly than the Janet W. Thomson (treasurer), Peter Wood ______new words almost daily, and dictionaries are ubiquitous abbreviations of texting: LOL, Askrigg Village Book 26 hard pressed to keep up; many new words TY, BW, HAGD, but such are here to stay. Final Processing: Sarah Champion, ______originate in America. Mind you TTFN came out from the wireless Adrian Janke Doctor’s Rotas 18 However, an increasing trend seems to be in the 1940s. ______to follow an Australian pattern of shortening Now SWYCD! Postal Distribution: Derek Stephens Tour de France 10 & 28 words; some of us find this quite endearing, , in proportion. The postie delivers the mail ______from the Salvos (the Salvation Army), you Gayle Mill News Dr Kristen Whalley 27 PLEASE NOTE might pick up a bargain at the op shop Sunday 6th July 2014 at 11.00am and ______(opportunity shop= charity shop), no-one What’s On 13 & 14 2.30pm This web-copy does not contain the commercial eats breakfast; it’s always brekky. At the Bar- Two hour Demonstration Guided Tours – see adverts which are in the full Newsletter. ______bie you probs see users on their mobes! You all the original 1879 machinery work- Plus all the regulars might take the kids to Maccas after kindie. ing! Booking is advised As a general rule we only accept adverts from ______Even the Australians are happy to live in Oz. Wednesday 16th July 10.30am – 4.30pm within the circulation area and no more than one- Don’t know if the Kiwis are happy with their Introduction to Simple Book Binding £50 per third of each issue is taken up with them. title, but we’ve to be content to be Poms and person all materials & lunch included there are some bizarre explanations for that Sunday 20th July 10.00am – 4.30pm Whilst we try to ensure that all information word. No driver does a U-turn - it’s a uwey, is correct we cannot be held legally Introduction to Wheelwrighting £60 per per- Advertising and the utility vehicle disappeared in favour son including lunch & bring & share BBQ by responsible for omissions or inaccuracies in of the ute years ago. How these appear articles, adverts or listings, or for any the fire afterwards! Boxed adverts: £6, £12, £18 spelled in the dictionaries we don’t know! Wednesday 23rd July 10.00m – 4.00pm inconvenience caused. Views expressed in Place names sound jolly! Brizzie, Tassie, articles are the sole responsibility of the Coptic and Folded Books £45 all materials There is a big reduction for six issues or Top End, the Coat Hanger, Alice, Westralia person by-lined. Articles by comittee and lunch included. more, so for six issues the totals are: (You work them out) or Rocky for Rocking- Gayle Mill is also open for one hour members carry just their initials. We ham and Bundy for Bundaberg seem to be appreciate being asked before any part of guided tours (Sunday – Friday) at 1.00pm £25, £50 or £75 always used. st the Newsletter is reproduced and 3.00pm Except 1 Sunday of each Are we catching on? Do you mind? We’ve month. Greetings etc. £2.00 had Buck House in London for years; Hyde Ring 667320 for bookings. What’s ons (non-commercial) are free Park brekkies seem to be here to stay but www.gaylemill.org.uk THE AUGUST 2014 ISSUE we’ve yet to hear of anyone taking a dip in email: [email protected] the Serpy! Footballers have no difficulty Contacts for adverts: WILL BE PRODUCED ON with Darlo, Boro or ManU. How about JULY 28th AND 29th ‘Appy’ for Appersett (if that’s appropriate!)?; For Hawes area and westward: ‘Carpy’ (not quite so nice!), Asky, Aysy (can be a bit misty thereabouts!), Burty sounds St Matthew's Church, Barry Cruickshanks, Ashfield, Hardraw: 667458 cheerful, or Reddo!; certainly locals drop the Stalling Busk -Sunday 6th July DEADLINE FOR COPY: ‘West’ from West Burton, the’ Rust’ from The Church will be open for quiet contem- For elsewhere: Thornton and they take the bus to Bed’l. plation the day after the Tour de France. All THURSDAY Kent Dale became Kendal centuries ago and welcome to come and enjoy the peace of Sue Duffield, Fellside, JULY 24th we travel via Sed’b to get there and you still Stalling Busk. Thornton Rust: 663504

2 2 Published by Upper Wensleydale The Upper Wensleydale Newsletter Newsletter Editorial hear ‘Bainbrig’. Newcomers of course are Burnside Coach House, Two things might surprise you this month: amused that we go to Widdle on the B6255. Burtersett Road, Hawes DL8 3NT Issue 204 — July 2014 firstly, we are not writing about the Grand Now here’s the challenge; how about creat- Départ; we’ve enough bikey stuff! Our com- ing new names for people working in or Features mittee decided to do that after the event in things used in our local industries of cheese, Tel: 667785 August; secondly, since the last few editori- rope, tourism or local trades and retail? Or e-mail: [email protected] St Margaret’s Restoration 9 als have been a bit heavy, this is maybe a bit are there some already which we have ______lighter. missed. Some day in Hawes you might Have you noticed how a few words seem to bump into a ‘ropy’ in the station yard or a Printed by Wensleydale Press Blame it on Bartle 19 be everywhere? Take ‘devastated’ for exam- ‘curdy’ up Gayle Lane! Here comes the ______ple; so many situations seem to be plummy with a load of pipes! Look out for Committee: Alan S.Watkinson, W. Metcalfe & Sons 24 Barry Cruickshanks (web), Sue E .Duffield, ‘devastating’. As for ‘like’, some young peo- the Fall Guy to ask the way to Aysgarth ______Karen Jones, Alastair Macintosh, ple seem to manage to, like, get ‘like’ several Falls! Neil Piper, Karen Prudden, Competition 5 times in one breath! The internet generates Such words seem more friendly than the Janet W. Thomson (treasurer), Peter Wood ______new words almost daily, and dictionaries are ubiquitous abbreviations of texting: LOL, Askrigg Village Book 26 hard pressed to keep up; many new words TY, BW, HAGD, but such are here to stay. Final Processing: Sarah Champion, ______originate in America. Mind you TTFN came out from the wireless Adrian Janke Doctor’s Rotas 18 However, an increasing trend seems to be in the 1940s. ______to follow an Australian pattern of shortening Now SWYCD! Postal Distribution: Derek Stephens Tour de France 10 & 28 words; some of us find this quite endearing, , in proportion. The postie delivers the mail ______from the Salvos (the Salvation Army), you Gayle Mill News Dr Kristen Whalley 27 PLEASE NOTE might pick up a bargain at the op shop Sunday 6th July 2014 at 11.00am and ______(opportunity shop= charity shop), no-one What’s On 13 & 14 2.30pm This web-copy does not contain the commercial eats breakfast; it’s always brekky. At the Bar- Two hour Demonstration Guided Tours – see adverts which are in the full Newsletter. ______bie you probs see users on their mobes! You all the original 1879 machinery work- Plus all the regulars might take the kids to Maccas after kindie. ing! Booking is advised As a general rule we only accept adverts from ______Even the Australians are happy to live in Oz. Wednesday 16th July 10.30am – 4.30pm within the circulation area and no more than one- Don’t know if the Kiwis are happy with their Introduction to Simple Book Binding £50 per third of each issue is taken up with them. title, but we’ve to be content to be Poms and person all materials & lunch included there are some bizarre explanations for that Sunday 20th July 10.00am – 4.30pm Whilst we try to ensure that all information word. No driver does a U-turn - it’s a uwey, is correct we cannot be held legally Introduction to Wheelwrighting £60 per per- Advertising and the utility vehicle disappeared in favour son including lunch & bring & share BBQ by responsible for omissions or inaccuracies in of the ute years ago. How these appear articles, adverts or listings, or for any the fire afterwards! Boxed adverts: £6, £12, £18 spelled in the dictionaries we don’t know! Wednesday 23rd July 10.00m – 4.00pm inconvenience caused. Views expressed in Place names sound jolly! Brizzie, Tassie, articles are the sole responsibility of the Coptic and Folded Books £45 all materials There is a big reduction for six issues or Top End, the Coat Hanger, Alice, Westralia person by-lined. Articles by comittee and lunch included. more, so for six issues the totals are: (You work them out) or Rocky for Rocking- Gayle Mill is also open for one hour members carry just their initials. We ham and Bundy for Bundaberg seem to be appreciate being asked before any part of guided tours (Sunday – Friday) at 1.00pm £25, £50 or £75 always used. st the Newsletter is reproduced and 3.00pm Except 1 Sunday of each Are we catching on? Do you mind? We’ve month. Greetings etc. £2.00 had Buck House in London for years; Hyde Ring 667320 for bookings. What’s ons (non-commercial) are free Park brekkies seem to be here to stay but www.gaylemill.org.uk THE AUGUST 2014 ISSUE we’ve yet to hear of anyone taking a dip in email: [email protected] the Serpy! Footballers have no difficulty Contacts for adverts: WILL BE PRODUCED ON with Darlo, Boro or ManU. How about JULY 28th AND 29th ‘Appy’ for Appersett (if that’s appropriate!)?; For Hawes area and westward: ‘Carpy’ (not quite so nice!), Asky, Aysy (can be a bit misty thereabouts!), Burty sounds St Matthew's Church, Barry Cruickshanks, Ashfield, Hardraw: 667458 cheerful, or Reddo!; certainly locals drop the Stalling Busk -Sunday 6th July DEADLINE FOR COPY: ‘West’ from West Burton, the’ Rust’ from The Church will be open for quiet contem- For elsewhere: Thornton and they take the bus to Bed’l. plation the day after the Tour de France. All THURSDAY Kent Dale became Kendal centuries ago and welcome to come and enjoy the peace of Sue Duffield, Fellside, JULY 24th we travel via Sed’b to get there and you still Stalling Busk. Thornton Rust: 663504

3 3 Wensleydale 100 Eunice the Ewe June Competition Answers Leyburn Bowling Club Chloe Richardson from Gayle is Some Yorkshire man-made tourist spots– The latest month has proved a successful one doing a sponsored cycle ride on anagrams. for Leyburn Bowling Club, consolidating our Friday August 1st: 100 miles position amongst the leaders in this season’s in one day, for SARCOMA UK 1. SEA TRAIL Saltaire JSW League. the bone and soft tissue cancer charity. Last month I was hiding in the Hawes Gala 2. I HELP LACE Piece Hall We played 4 league matches during this Starting at home, she is going up Fleet Moss, on page 37. However, a little sprog crept into 3. BONY BEFIT SAUNA Fountains period. 2 home games against Masham and Buckden, West Witton, Middleham, Bedale, page 39 (actually left over from last month). Abbey Northallerton saw Leyburn record two Scotton, Swaledale, Kirkby Stephen and The winner of the £10 prize was Megan 4. COLON BATTLES Bolton Castle consecutive 6-1 victories. The following week Hawes. If you would like to sponsor her: Iveson, Hawes. 5. VERY BIG LIFE SINE Bingley we travelled to champions Hutton Rudby. Justgiving.com ‘Wensleydale 100’ Chloe Five Rise Unfortunately we had a number of regular Richardson, or you can catch Chloe with her Where am I this month? 6. DRIVE TUP BLEACH AID Ribblehead players unavailable and a match played in sponsor forms. (Should have read TUB not TUP) Viaduct almost incessant rain saw us lose our unbeaten Thank you for your support and good luck If sending your Eunice ‘finding’ by email 7. DOCK AP NUMBER Duncombe Park record with a 5-2 defeat but under all the Chloe! please enclose your POSTAL address if you 8. SHAP OR THONG AWARE Haworth circumstances we still felt this had been a good wish to be considered for the £10 prize. Parsonage performance. Finally this month another home 9. OWL DARES CHAT Castle Howard match, this time against Topcliffe, saw us Hawes Bunting Makers 10. MIRK YES TORN York Minster achieve our first 7-0 win of the season. With 7 The Old School House 11. CRAM CHOSE LINDT Richmond games now having been played in this season’s Thank you to all the ladies that marked out, Arts Centre Leyburn Castle JSW League (13 matches still remain) Leyburn cut, sewed and pressed the magnificent bun- Films 12. THAN LLANBUR GOES. Burton Agnes have made a strong start, winning 6 games with ting adorning our town. It took several ladies, All showing at 5.00 and 7.30pm on Hall only 1 defeat, and we are currently top of the several weeks to complete the mammoth Thursdays and Fridays (except 25th) The winner was Jane Ritchie who confessed to league, albeit very narrowly, and certainly some task. At one point we had 8 sewing machines July 10,11th The Monuments Men receiving a little help from Margaret Proctor so difficult matches lie ahead ! going full tilt and over a dozen ladies on the July 17,18th The Grand Budapest Hotel the £20 prize is donated to Caring for Life, Away from the JSW League matches, we held production line, not to mention the "home July 24th THE THIRD MAN (special Leeds; Margaret’s choice. 2 of our Sunday Jumbles ( Pairs ) competitions workers". We even had a visitor join us who showing for the 1940s during the past month and both provided clear- had seen the notice in Mason's window. weekend) cut winners. On 18th May Chris King and John Special thanks to Anne Smithies who al- July 31st, August 1st July Competition Hall won with a score of 26 points, whilst on lowed the use of Chapel Gallery and her sew- Best Exotic Marigold Hotel You won’t be surprised to see it’s about 8th June Keith Walling and Anne Steggles were ing machines, at her own expense and to Ruth cycling and cycles. Not all are anagrams. Lyndsey for organising the "event". We are the victors with the outstanding Jumbles score of 32 points. all hoping the bunting will be robust enough 1. UTTERED to adorn our town for may years to come. Finally, an early note that Leyburn Bowling Free Tickets 2. CYCLIST RAGES— BROKEN ONES Club will be holding their annual Car Boot Sale Four train tickets have become available as 3. SPINE RAN WEIGHED DOWN at the usual venue of Craken House Farm Field described below: 4. BLAND SHARE (opposite Tennants) in Leyburn on Sunday 10th 5. I UNKNIT A BESOM Bainbridge and District August. Two from Garsdale to London on Thursday 6. SOUNDS LIKE “OCEAN, DRINK, Mervyn Buckley Motor Club Hill Climb 3rd July at 13.03, changing at Leeds, into LOOK” - but what does it stand for? Open Class London King's Cross at 17.28 7. “WE’LL RUN THEM IN” Motorcycle Hill Climb One from London King's Cross on Monday 8. THE BIG LEAVING and Motorshow 7th July at 12.05, changing at Leeds, into 9. REVEL MOOD Garsdale at 16.16 10. TWO OLD COINS Hawes and High Abbotside Wednesday 23rd July, 6.00pm Parish Council Sorrell Sykes Farm, Nr Aysgarth One from London King's Cross on Thursday 11. A CHIN FOR A CHANGE Gates Open Midday. 10th July at 12.05, changing at Leeds, into 12. AT LENGTH AS A ROMAN MIGHT SAY The Council has decided to alter its hours at the Practice 5.00 pm. Racing 6.00 pm Garsdale at 16.16 Community Office. In future the Clerk (Ian Competitor entry £20 All need the user to have a SENIOR RAIL King) will be in the Community Office on Refreshments Available CARD Incredible! Fridays from 11.00am - noon. When he is away For information and Entries contact Bob Fos- All free to anyone who can use them - ring Tuesday July 8th 7.30pm the slot will be covered by one of the ter 622331 or 07811 385392. me on 667500 Roughshod Theatre Company with Councillors. In addition, Councillor Walter Entries close 16th July Thanks, Andrew Mccullagh TOUR DE FORCE— Head will be working in the Office on Tuesdays an incredible journey of a lifetime! and Thursdays. at Leyburn Arts Centre, The Old School House

4 4 Wensleydale 100 Eunice the Ewe June Competition Answers Leyburn Bowling Club Chloe Richardson from Gayle is Some Yorkshire man-made tourist spots– The latest month has proved a successful one doing a sponsored cycle ride on anagrams. for Leyburn Bowling Club, consolidating our Friday August 1st: 100 miles position amongst the leaders in this season’s in one day, for SARCOMA UK 1. SEA TRAIL Saltaire JSW League. the bone and soft tissue cancer charity. Last month I was hiding in the Hawes Gala 2. I HELP LACE Piece Hall We played 4 league matches during this Starting at home, she is going up Fleet Moss, on page 37. However, a little sprog crept into 3. BONY BEFIT SAUNA Fountains period. 2 home games against Masham and Buckden, West Witton, Middleham, Bedale, page 39 (actually left over from last month). Abbey Northallerton saw Leyburn record two Scotton, Swaledale, Kirkby Stephen and The winner of the £10 prize was Megan 4. COLON BATTLES Bolton Castle consecutive 6-1 victories. The following week Hawes. If you would like to sponsor her: Iveson, Hawes. 5. VERY BIG LIFE SINE Bingley we travelled to champions Hutton Rudby. Justgiving.com ‘Wensleydale 100’ Chloe Five Rise Unfortunately we had a number of regular Richardson, or you can catch Chloe with her Where am I this month? 6. DRIVE TUP BLEACH AID Ribblehead players unavailable and a match played in sponsor forms. (Should have read TUB not TUP) Viaduct almost incessant rain saw us lose our unbeaten Thank you for your support and good luck If sending your Eunice ‘finding’ by email 7. DOCK AP NUMBER Duncombe Park record with a 5-2 defeat but under all the Chloe! please enclose your POSTAL address if you 8. SHAP OR THONG AWARE Haworth circumstances we still felt this had been a good wish to be considered for the £10 prize. Parsonage performance. Finally this month another home 9. OWL DARES CHAT Castle Howard match, this time against Topcliffe, saw us Hawes Bunting Makers 10. MIRK YES TORN York Minster achieve our first 7-0 win of the season. With 7 The Old School House 11. CRAM CHOSE LINDT Richmond games now having been played in this season’s Thank you to all the ladies that marked out, Arts Centre Leyburn Castle JSW League (13 matches still remain) Leyburn cut, sewed and pressed the magnificent bun- Films 12. THAN LLANBUR GOES. Burton Agnes have made a strong start, winning 6 games with ting adorning our town. It took several ladies, All showing at 5.00 and 7.30pm on Hall only 1 defeat, and we are currently top of the several weeks to complete the mammoth Thursdays and Fridays (except 25th) The winner was Jane Ritchie who confessed to league, albeit very narrowly, and certainly some task. At one point we had 8 sewing machines July 10,11th The Monuments Men receiving a little help from Margaret Proctor so difficult matches lie ahead ! going full tilt and over a dozen ladies on the July 17,18th The Grand Budapest Hotel the £20 prize is donated to Caring for Life, Away from the JSW League matches, we held production line, not to mention the "home July 24th THE THIRD MAN (special Leeds; Margaret’s choice. 2 of our Sunday Jumbles ( Pairs ) competitions workers". We even had a visitor join us who showing for the 1940s during the past month and both provided clear- had seen the notice in Mason's window. weekend) cut winners. On 18th May Chris King and John Special thanks to Anne Smithies who al- July 31st, August 1st July Competition Hall won with a score of 26 points, whilst on lowed the use of Chapel Gallery and her sew- Best Exotic Marigold Hotel You won’t be surprised to see it’s about 8th June Keith Walling and Anne Steggles were ing machines, at her own expense and to Ruth cycling and cycles. Not all are anagrams. Lyndsey for organising the "event". We are the victors with the outstanding Jumbles score of 32 points. all hoping the bunting will be robust enough 1. UTTERED to adorn our town for may years to come. Finally, an early note that Leyburn Bowling Free Tickets 2. CYCLIST RAGES— BROKEN ONES Club will be holding their annual Car Boot Sale Four train tickets have become available as 3. SPINE RAN WEIGHED DOWN at the usual venue of Craken House Farm Field described below: 4. BLAND SHARE (opposite Tennants) in Leyburn on Sunday 10th 5. I UNKNIT A BESOM Bainbridge and District August. Two from Garsdale to London on Thursday 6. SOUNDS LIKE “OCEAN, DRINK, Mervyn Buckley Motor Club Hill Climb 3rd July at 13.03, changing at Leeds, into LOOK” - but what does it stand for? Open Class London King's Cross at 17.28 7. “WE’LL RUN THEM IN” Motorcycle Hill Climb One from London King's Cross on Monday 8. THE BIG LEAVING and Motorshow 7th July at 12.05, changing at Leeds, into 9. REVEL MOOD Garsdale at 16.16 10. TWO OLD COINS Hawes and High Abbotside Wednesday 23rd July, 6.00pm Parish Council Sorrell Sykes Farm, Nr Aysgarth One from London King's Cross on Thursday 11. A CHIN FOR A CHANGE Gates Open Midday. 10th July at 12.05, changing at Leeds, into 12. AT LENGTH AS A ROMAN MIGHT SAY The Council has decided to alter its hours at the Practice 5.00 pm. Racing 6.00 pm Garsdale at 16.16 Community Office. In future the Clerk (Ian Competitor entry £20 All need the user to have a SENIOR RAIL King) will be in the Community Office on Refreshments Available CARD Incredible! Fridays from 11.00am - noon. When he is away For information and Entries contact Bob Fos- All free to anyone who can use them - ring Tuesday July 8th 7.30pm the slot will be covered by one of the ter 622331 or 07811 385392. me on 667500 Roughshod Theatre Company with Councillors. In addition, Councillor Walter Entries close 16th July Thanks, Andrew Mccullagh TOUR DE FORCE— Head will be working in the Office on Tuesdays an incredible journey of a lifetime! and Thursdays. at Leyburn Arts Centre, The Old School House

5 5 t The Games we Used to Play Postman Pat An indoor game for the young and the At Hawes Gala on Saturday June 28th. old, He will be in town for the opening of the Dales LVA Charity Bike Ride but all had to be crackers! newly-located Post Office On Wednesday 11th June, 190 riders gathered in Hawes to start the 28th LVA It will be fascinating to know of those read- charity Bike Ride which this year was from ers who have played it. Hawes to Middleham. For the first time in a SPOTS. This party game is best suited for long time, the sun shone from start to finish about six or eight people sitting on chairs and with a brisk tail wind, nothing was or the floor in a circle, and with the soot going to put a damper on it this year. from a fire! After a staggered start (as to avoid any Each player chooses a name for him/ congestion) the cyclists headed onto herself, preferably the most outlandish Bainbridge only to realise that maybe they found. The Bible’s Old Testament is a good should have checked over their bikes after place to look. Players must try to remember all! A few chains off and a quick puncture the others’ names. Plants by the Castle later everyone moved on to Askrigg where, Play begins as one person recites very Again we had great weather for our last with three pubs, plenty of soft drinks and seriously, using his chosen name, (for ex- Burtersett Show plant sale of the 2014 season, though sales water was taken on board. From there, over ample): “I Nebuchadnezzar of the house of Sunday July 27th 2.00pm were a bit quiet. Worton Bottom on to the Victoria Arms Nebuchadnezzar, and having no spots. To be opened by Jack and Nancy Sutton Nevertheless, we reached £600 for the where a warm welcome was given. (After How many spots hast thou, O (for exam- Adult classes: three combined, so should be able to send all, this is where it all started all those years ple) Amaziah?” Limerick theme: Tour de France an extra £300 each to Mission Aviation ago with Ralph and crew.) To which Amaziah (assuming that’s the Photograph theme: Tour de France . Max Fellowship to support the work of Mark The ride then continued through to right name for the right player) replies in size 7x5 in and Sarah Newnham in Uganda, and to Aysgarth, West Witton and turning at the same vein: “I Amaziah…” to someone Three slices home-made shortbread Scripture Union UK to support their Neil Wensley church, through to Middleham. else. Home made strawberry jam Jackson (based near Darlington) in his Roughly 6 hours in all! It is 20 miles long! If however, a mistake is made in the Home brew of ‘your taste’ work with young people in NE England. With only a few cuts and bruises and sore choosing of the name or the right person, a Flower arrangement This has been the product of the legs everyone managed to complete what SPOT, preferably of soot from the fire- Scarecrow combined work and encouragement of was one of our most pleasant rides we've place, is added to the face of the mistake- Children’s classes (Under 7s, 7-10s, 11- many working together in the parish of had in a long time. maker. As time goes on (and no-one can 16s) Bolton-cum-Redmire, for whom I'm only I want to thank everyone who took part in see their own spots!) many mistakes are Garden in a tin the voice. What in 2015? the ride and especially those who helped made unless a careful count is kept of one’s Photography: theme, cycles. Max size 7x5 Robert Hall me to marshal the event. It wouldn’t own spots, otherwise a further spot is in. happen without them. I also want to thank added. Drawing : theme, cycles all the public houses who provided food Written like this, the hilarious nature of Three decorated home-made biscuits along the route, which was most the game might not be apparent. Believe Poem or short story on ‘My pet’ appreciated. Also, a big thanks to all the me! Pasta necklace road users that day for their patience and The winner is the one with the fewest Largest dandelion leaf generosity. We even had money thrown out spots after the game becomes uncontrolla- 2.00pm Opening; 2.15-2.45pm Band of car windows. All we need to do now is ble! 2.45pm Country dancing; 3.15pm Fell collect all the money in, which can take a A.S.W. race; while. 3.15-3.45pm Band; 3.45pm Dog show; If you wish to send an application for Break In 4.00pm Awards and close; 4.15pm Egg your organisation or group to be throwing. considered for a donation, please do so by In the late hours of Friday evening, 6th Entries to be handed in between 10.00 October this year to Angus at the Fountain, June, the Low Mill instructor’s cottage in and 11.00am Hawes. Askrigg was broken into. Thieves took Here's looking forward to next year! personal items belonging to instructors Angus McCarthy. Sec. N.R.D.L.V.A. including lap tops, digital cameras, ipod and a bike. More Tour Parking Terry Hailwood at the Centre has more Haygarth Please note that parking will be available HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUM and DAD information, the police have been involved at Aysgarth Station on Friday and Satur- (Margaret - 19th July; Gilbert - 28th July) and also can be contacted with any day, July 4th and 5th. information. (Low Mill 650432).

6 6 t The Games we Used to Play Postman Pat An indoor game for the young and the At Hawes Gala on Saturday June 28th. old, He will be in town for the opening of the Dales LVA Charity Bike Ride but all had to be crackers! newly-located Post Office On Wednesday 11th June, 190 riders gathered in Hawes to start the 28th LVA It will be fascinating to know of those read- charity Bike Ride which this year was from ers who have played it. Hawes to Middleham. For the first time in a SPOTS. This party game is best suited for long time, the sun shone from start to finish about six or eight people sitting on chairs and with a brisk tail wind, nothing was or the floor in a circle, and with the soot going to put a damper on it this year. from a fire! After a staggered start (as to avoid any Each player chooses a name for him/ congestion) the cyclists headed onto herself, preferably the most outlandish Bainbridge only to realise that maybe they found. The Bible’s Old Testament is a good should have checked over their bikes after place to look. Players must try to remember all! A few chains off and a quick puncture the others’ names. Plants by the Castle later everyone moved on to Askrigg where, Play begins as one person recites very Again we had great weather for our last with three pubs, plenty of soft drinks and seriously, using his chosen name, (for ex- Burtersett Show plant sale of the 2014 season, though sales water was taken on board. From there, over ample): “I Nebuchadnezzar of the house of Sunday July 27th 2.00pm were a bit quiet. Worton Bottom on to the Victoria Arms Nebuchadnezzar, and having no spots. To be opened by Jack and Nancy Sutton Nevertheless, we reached £600 for the where a warm welcome was given. (After How many spots hast thou, O (for exam- Adult classes: three combined, so should be able to send all, this is where it all started all those years ple) Amaziah?” Limerick theme: Tour de France an extra £300 each to Mission Aviation ago with Ralph and crew.) To which Amaziah (assuming that’s the Photograph theme: Tour de France . Max Fellowship to support the work of Mark The ride then continued through to right name for the right player) replies in size 7x5 in and Sarah Newnham in Uganda, and to Aysgarth, West Witton and turning at the same vein: “I Amaziah…” to someone Three slices home-made shortbread Scripture Union UK to support their Neil Wensley church, through to Middleham. else. Home made strawberry jam Jackson (based near Darlington) in his Roughly 6 hours in all! It is 20 miles long! If however, a mistake is made in the Home brew of ‘your taste’ work with young people in NE England. With only a few cuts and bruises and sore choosing of the name or the right person, a Flower arrangement This has been the product of the legs everyone managed to complete what SPOT, preferably of soot from the fire- Scarecrow combined work and encouragement of was one of our most pleasant rides we've place, is added to the face of the mistake- Children’s classes (Under 7s, 7-10s, 11- many working together in the parish of had in a long time. maker. As time goes on (and no-one can 16s) Bolton-cum-Redmire, for whom I'm only I want to thank everyone who took part in see their own spots!) many mistakes are Garden in a tin the voice. What in 2015? the ride and especially those who helped made unless a careful count is kept of one’s Photography: theme, cycles. Max size 7x5 Robert Hall me to marshal the event. It wouldn’t own spots, otherwise a further spot is in. happen without them. I also want to thank added. Drawing : theme, cycles all the public houses who provided food Written like this, the hilarious nature of Three decorated home-made biscuits along the route, which was most the game might not be apparent. Believe Poem or short story on ‘My pet’ appreciated. Also, a big thanks to all the me! Pasta necklace road users that day for their patience and The winner is the one with the fewest Largest dandelion leaf generosity. We even had money thrown out spots after the game becomes uncontrolla- 2.00pm Opening; 2.15-2.45pm Band of car windows. All we need to do now is ble! 2.45pm Country dancing; 3.15pm Fell collect all the money in, which can take a A.S.W. race; while. 3.15-3.45pm Band; 3.45pm Dog show; If you wish to send an application for Break In 4.00pm Awards and close; 4.15pm Egg your organisation or group to be throwing. considered for a donation, please do so by In the late hours of Friday evening, 6th Entries to be handed in between 10.00 October this year to Angus at the Fountain, June, the Low Mill instructor’s cottage in and 11.00am Hawes. Askrigg was broken into. Thieves took Here's looking forward to next year! personal items belonging to instructors Angus McCarthy. Sec. N.R.D.L.V.A. including lap tops, digital cameras, ipod and a bike. More Tour Parking Terry Hailwood at the Centre has more Haygarth Please note that parking will be available HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUM and DAD information, the police have been involved at Aysgarth Station on Friday and Satur- (Margaret - 19th July; Gilbert - 28th July) and also can be contacted with any day, July 4th and 5th. information. (Low Mill 650432).

7 7 St Margaret's Church some time before it is back in action. When Penhill Benefice Events Hawes In Bloom Restoration Update all this work is complete we will have a Tuesday 1st July 10.00am-noon at Grey- By the time you read this I hope you will ap- much lighter back to the church with a level stones, Carperby (663714). Drop in for Cof- prove of the new Hawes in Bloom! All we A major milestone has been achieved in the entrance to the new kitchen and lavatory. fee. £1 to include coffee/tea and biscuits. Pro- need now is some gentle sun and light night- restoration of St Margaret's church in As well as extending timescales, all the ceeds will be divided between St. Andrew’s time rain ... Hawes. Phase one of the restoration has extra work identified means that the costs Church and a charity of the host’s choice. I would just like to mention a few tips for been completed! There is not very much to have increased significantly. While we Wednesday 2nd July 10:30am to noon Bol- keeping your baskets and containers in the see from the main road because this phase hope to secure additional grant support for ton-cum-Redmire PCC. Church Coffee Morn- best condition. has tackled the south side of the building. our project, we will have to raise a large ing I know most of you are diligent in your wa- Have a look from the track up from The amount of extra money ourselves. The ther- Margaret and Robert Hall (623012), Dale tering and often do the baskets twice a day. Hill or approaching from Bealer Bank and mometer opposite the White Hart currently View, Castle Bolton – note change of venue. This will ensure that they will have the best you will see the new roof slates, the new shows that we are most of the way to Wednesday 2nd July 7.30pm Concert at St. possible chance of a prolonged show through- lead work and stonework replaced where achieving our target. This is now incorrect Andrew’s Church, Aysgarth. A celebration in out the Summer and well into Autumn. They there was damage. Come inside, especially and we still have a long way to go. We will words and music of the birth of the Romantic will need watering even if we have had show- on a sunny day and you will see the beauty increase the scale shown on the thermome- Movement. Andrew Bannerman (Narrator) – ery conditions. and brightness of the stained glass on the ter just as soon as we obtain precise figures TV actor, writer and director. Please can I ask you not to rest your water- south and east sides where most of the win- for the enlarged Phase Three. Richard Frewer (Tenor) – Solo performer on can or put any additional weight on to the dows have been removed, repaired and So thank you all for your massive support BBC TV/radio and with major orchestras. baskets. They are the fullest and heaviest bas- cleaned. For the first time in the last ten to date. I hope that you will continue to Accompanied by John Foster (Piano). kets I have ever hung and I have fitted the years there is no polythene sheeting over support us to achieve a full restoration of St A fascinating insight into the lives, friend- strongest brackets but...! the organ to keep out the rain. The roof on Margaret's over the coming months. ships and works of Wordsworth and Col- Any troughs or other containers will gener- the south side is now sound and water- A.M. eridge, including excerpts from the dramatic ally need less watering (depending on size), proof. poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, but just feel the compost first. When in doubt, While we owe much to our architect, Elaine Blackett-Ord, for bringing the some- with music from the period. water! If you have any concerns I am easily Hawes Town Website Tickets £8.00 (incl. refreshments) Contact: contactable. what extended project in on budget, our The new Hawes Town website is now live! 663368/663097, or buy at the door. Well that is quite enough nagging, so let me real debt is to the people of Hawes and www.visithawes.co.uk The website is a Advance Notice Wensley Flower Festival finish with a great big thank you to all those around for the constant support of our fre- dedicated website for Hawes. It’s aim is to 9th and 10th August. The theme is Music who have put up with me trying to drum up quent fundraising ventures. Without this be a guide for visitors to show them where and Song. Displays in Wensley Church with enthusiasm for flowers in those bleak winter support the project would never have got to shop, stay, eat and what they can do in refreshments in the village hall. Proceeds will months and have supported this mad scheme off the ground. the town. go towards the Wensley Organ Fund. of mine! With Phase One complete, we now move We now need your help to ensure the Preview: 8th August with wine and canapés The biggest thanks must, however, go to on to Phase Two which will tackle the information is correct and that the site is We would like donations of cakes! Please ring those who have helped heave, hump, climb, structure of the tower as well as the walls, full of useful information for visitors. Pip Bolton 623674 plant, hang and water those seemingly endless roof and porch on the north side, facing the Please contact me if you’d like your busi- quantities of plants and baskets. I could not town. While discussions with contractors ness listing under the headings ‘where to have done it without you. are still on-going, we are hopeful that work stay’, ‘where to eat’ or ‘where to shop’. Keep watering, and have a lovely summer ! on this phase will start in the next couple of Carperby Open Gardens There is a downloadable copy of the Live Richard Noble, months. Learning a lesson from Phase One, Shop Hawes Brochure on the website, on behalf of the Hawes and High Abbotside we are likely to have a break over the worst Carperby holds its annual garden festival of which covers services and businesses not Tour de France Action Group of winter and complete the work next gardens on Sunday 6th July from 11.00 am spring and summer. directly related to visitors. till 5.00 pm. Refreshments all day, free off Part of the investigations for Phase Two Please contact me if you would like an road parking, and plant sales. Admission discovered that the inside of the tower is in event adding too. I will need dates, times, £4.00 children free. Hawes Fire Station a bad state and so completion of work on costs, contact details and some information Open Day It will be hard to equal the fantastic takings the tower internals, together with our new about the event. We will be holding tutori- Sunday August 3rd, noon to 4.00pm of last year, but as it will be the day after “the kitchen and lavatory will have to move into als shortly for those interested in contribut- Bouncy Castle, Face Painting, big race” there will be lots of visitors in the a third phase. Incidentally the poor state of ing to the blog. Raffle, Tombola, BBQ. area. Given good weather who knows? Re- the internal woodwork has caused it to be Contact details are: Everyone welcome. cords are there to be broken. declared unsafe and has prevented resump- abi.bromirskyj@richmondshire.gov.uk or Any questions please contact Many thanks. Pat Jackson tion of winding of the clock. It will be 01748 901035. Michelle Barnes, 07967 443423

8 8 St Margaret's Church some time before it is back in action. When Penhill Benefice Events Hawes In Bloom Restoration Update all this work is complete we will have a Tuesday 1st July 10.00am-noon at Grey- By the time you read this I hope you will ap- much lighter back to the church with a level stones, Carperby (663714). Drop in for Cof- prove of the new Hawes in Bloom! All we A major milestone has been achieved in the entrance to the new kitchen and lavatory. fee. £1 to include coffee/tea and biscuits. Pro- need now is some gentle sun and light night- restoration of St Margaret's church in As well as extending timescales, all the ceeds will be divided between St. Andrew’s time rain ... Hawes. Phase one of the restoration has extra work identified means that the costs Church and a charity of the host’s choice. I would just like to mention a few tips for been completed! There is not very much to have increased significantly. While we Wednesday 2nd July 10:30am to noon Bol- keeping your baskets and containers in the see from the main road because this phase hope to secure additional grant support for ton-cum-Redmire PCC. Church Coffee Morn- best condition. has tackled the south side of the building. our project, we will have to raise a large ing I know most of you are diligent in your wa- Have a look from the track up from The amount of extra money ourselves. The ther- Margaret and Robert Hall (623012), Dale tering and often do the baskets twice a day. Hill or approaching from Bealer Bank and mometer opposite the White Hart currently View, Castle Bolton – note change of venue. This will ensure that they will have the best you will see the new roof slates, the new shows that we are most of the way to Wednesday 2nd July 7.30pm Concert at St. possible chance of a prolonged show through- lead work and stonework replaced where achieving our target. This is now incorrect Andrew’s Church, Aysgarth. A celebration in out the Summer and well into Autumn. They there was damage. Come inside, especially and we still have a long way to go. We will words and music of the birth of the Romantic will need watering even if we have had show- on a sunny day and you will see the beauty increase the scale shown on the thermome- Movement. Andrew Bannerman (Narrator) – ery conditions. and brightness of the stained glass on the ter just as soon as we obtain precise figures TV actor, writer and director. Please can I ask you not to rest your water- south and east sides where most of the win- for the enlarged Phase Three. Richard Frewer (Tenor) – Solo performer on can or put any additional weight on to the dows have been removed, repaired and So thank you all for your massive support BBC TV/radio and with major orchestras. baskets. They are the fullest and heaviest bas- cleaned. For the first time in the last ten to date. I hope that you will continue to Accompanied by John Foster (Piano). kets I have ever hung and I have fitted the years there is no polythene sheeting over support us to achieve a full restoration of St A fascinating insight into the lives, friend- strongest brackets but...! the organ to keep out the rain. The roof on Margaret's over the coming months. ships and works of Wordsworth and Col- Any troughs or other containers will gener- the south side is now sound and water- A.M. eridge, including excerpts from the dramatic ally need less watering (depending on size), proof. poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, but just feel the compost first. When in doubt, While we owe much to our architect, Elaine Blackett-Ord, for bringing the some- with music from the period. water! If you have any concerns I am easily Hawes Town Website Tickets £8.00 (incl. refreshments) Contact: contactable. what extended project in on budget, our The new Hawes Town website is now live! 663368/663097, or buy at the door. Well that is quite enough nagging, so let me real debt is to the people of Hawes and www.visithawes.co.uk The website is a Advance Notice Wensley Flower Festival finish with a great big thank you to all those around for the constant support of our fre- dedicated website for Hawes. It’s aim is to 9th and 10th August. The theme is Music who have put up with me trying to drum up quent fundraising ventures. Without this be a guide for visitors to show them where and Song. Displays in Wensley Church with enthusiasm for flowers in those bleak winter support the project would never have got to shop, stay, eat and what they can do in refreshments in the village hall. Proceeds will months and have supported this mad scheme off the ground. the town. go towards the Wensley Organ Fund. of mine! With Phase One complete, we now move We now need your help to ensure the Preview: 8th August with wine and canapés The biggest thanks must, however, go to on to Phase Two which will tackle the information is correct and that the site is We would like donations of cakes! Please ring those who have helped heave, hump, climb, structure of the tower as well as the walls, full of useful information for visitors. Pip Bolton 623674 plant, hang and water those seemingly endless roof and porch on the north side, facing the Please contact me if you’d like your busi- quantities of plants and baskets. I could not town. While discussions with contractors ness listing under the headings ‘where to have done it without you. are still on-going, we are hopeful that work stay’, ‘where to eat’ or ‘where to shop’. Keep watering, and have a lovely summer ! on this phase will start in the next couple of Carperby Open Gardens There is a downloadable copy of the Live Richard Noble, months. Learning a lesson from Phase One, Shop Hawes Brochure on the website, on behalf of the Hawes and High Abbotside we are likely to have a break over the worst Carperby holds its annual garden festival of which covers services and businesses not Tour de France Action Group of winter and complete the work next gardens on Sunday 6th July from 11.00 am spring and summer. directly related to visitors. till 5.00 pm. Refreshments all day, free off Part of the investigations for Phase Two Please contact me if you would like an road parking, and plant sales. Admission discovered that the inside of the tower is in event adding too. I will need dates, times, £4.00 children free. Hawes Fire Station a bad state and so completion of work on costs, contact details and some information Open Day It will be hard to equal the fantastic takings the tower internals, together with our new about the event. We will be holding tutori- Sunday August 3rd, noon to 4.00pm of last year, but as it will be the day after “the kitchen and lavatory will have to move into als shortly for those interested in contribut- Bouncy Castle, Face Painting, big race” there will be lots of visitors in the a third phase. Incidentally the poor state of ing to the blog. Raffle, Tombola, BBQ. area. Given good weather who knows? Re- the internal woodwork has caused it to be Contact details are: Everyone welcome. cords are there to be broken. declared unsafe and has prevented resump- [email protected] or Any questions please contact Many thanks. Pat Jackson tion of winding of the clock. It will be 01748 901035. Michelle Barnes, 07967 443423

9 9 St Oswald's Church, Askrigg Le Tour climbers over the years, and I took out a Everyone Welcome Three special sections in our area are: Prunings Honeysuckle “Hallianna” last year, but as it Saturday 12th July - 7.30 pm - The first King of the Mountains climb A personal take on Plants, Propagating is now thriving elsewhere I need something Performance in Church By 'Young between Cray and Kidstones, the first sprint and other related rural ramblings. new. I have tried Passiflora, which lasted a Voices' (part of the Year of Music at Newbiggin and the second King of the few years before it succumbed to a particu- programme). Entry free. Refreshments Mountains climb up the Buttertubs.. The most wonderful aspect of this time of larly bad winter, and have used Clematis. available. year is colour. The greens in the landscape have matured with the surge of growth, and This time I might return to Clematis and Saturday 19th July - 7.30 pm - Summary of community events everything is pushing out blossom to attract have been researching the evergreen winter Performance by The Wensleydale Chorus July flowering varieties. We don’t have many in church. Saturday 26th July - 1-8 Hardraw Flower Festival wild life so that the cycle can continue. plants which can put on a good show in the Lunchtime Organ Recital by Stephen 2 ‘Cart before the horse’; Dales Today I visited a Plant and Book fair at Kiplin Hall near Scorton. What a tempta- winter so I fancied putting one in, if only to Newlove - Free entry. Countryside museum find out the level of hardiness. It is not very 4,5 King of the Mountains Festival, tion, plants and books in the same place! encouraging to discover that The RHS rec- Muker The books were all second hand and at 3 ommend that in cold areas it should be 4 West Burton Community Festival for £1 represented an opportunity too good Hawes Bike Trail grown in a container and overwintered in a 4 Thoralby Get together with wine to miss, and of course I brought home a greenhouse. That was not my plan! More As part of the Grand Depart and cheese. Village Hall 5.00– bagful. There were lots of fairly ordinary research needed. celebrations we have devised the 7.00pm plants too, but one nursery – Dark Star At Kiplin Hall there was a beautiful Hawes Bike Trail. 4,5 Hawes Community Festival Plants from East Rounton – had some very specimen of the climbing rose Throughout Hawes over 41 bikes are 4 –6 Aysgarth St. Andrew’s Flower interesting ones on offer, and I couldn’t “Compassion” In the sheltered walled gar- displayed by various businesses, inside and Festival. Le Tour with Flowers resist! den it had every chance to be glorious. I out. On 21 of the velocipedes there are 10.00am -5.00pm One of the pretty plants which can be bought one of these in1970 on the recom- letters or figures, but which? 4 Murder Mystery; Bolton Castle seen around dales villages in great profu- mendation of Mr Braithwaite at Leeming You can buy the Entry Form, for £1, in 5 Big screen in Bainbridge sion is Corydalis Lutea. It prefers to live in Bar. It has been my best purchase ever, various shops and pubs around town, 5 Aysgarth Institute: food! a south facing retaining wall where it can because it produces superb scented blooms including Mason’s Newsagents and the 5,6 Thornton Rust Institute; food push it roots back into the ground behind. every year, at least two flushes of colour, Dales Countryside Museum. The 6 Stalling Busk; Reflection and When it is covered in frothy yellow blos- and in a mild Autumn it will still have participant has to find all the letters or Refreshment. Bacon rolls, tea and som as it is just now, people often ask if I flowers in December. That’s hard to beat figures, write in the space next to the coffee. Service at 2.30pm have any for sale. Strangely it is not happy for value. business name then re-arrange to make a 6 Askrigg Town Head Farm Cream to be grown in pots. Although the seeds Good luck! And whatever you grow, take relevant phrase. Completed forms may be Teas germinate well they don’t like to be trans- planted or potted up. It must be the root time to enjoy it. dropped into The Dales Countryside Fuller details appear on other pages. Museum, The White Hart Inn, or The that doesn’t accept being disturbed. My Rose Rambler Community Office or posted to The normal solution is simply to give away the seed as there is always plenty. Many hy- Community Office St.Margaret's Church brids have been developed over the years, Hawes Bonfire Anyone can enter with prizes of £20 for Restoration Fund Raising under 16 years and £20 for over 16 years. and yesterday I bought a blue specimen and Firework Committee Tea, Scones and Stalls in St.Margaret's Corydalis flexuosa “Blue Dragon” It is a The closing date for entries is 31st July. ...will be raising money for the 2014 event Church every Tuesday and Wednesday in very attractive purplish blue with the usual The winning entry will be drawn on and need your help. We will be running the July between 1.00pm and 3.00pm. feathery foliage. Time will tell if it is tough Monday 4th August. Hopper's Refreshment in August on Satur- Saturday 5th July - 10.00am-noon Coffee enough to survive here. day 2nd. Morning and stalls, 2.30 - 4.30pm Tea, I bought an unusual Campanula called If you can spare us an hour or/and bake Scones and stalls plus a stall in the Market “Pink Octopus” which has interesting spi- Wensleydale Chorus 2014 us a cake, or send some bread buns, bacon, Place from 2.30pm with Baking and Crafts. dery flowers, a Ceratostigma plumbagi- This year the Wensleydale Chorus will be coffee etc it would be hugely appreciated. Friday 18th July, 7.30pm - A concert by noides for its blue flowers and autumn col- singing the Masse di Gloria by Puccini and They can be dropped off with Joanne Muker Band - Entry - £6.00 on the door. our, and completed my collection with yet the Diabelli Pastoral Mass in F opus 147. Fothergill at 39 Little Ings after 6.30pm on Raffle - Tea/Coffee in the interval. another hardy Geranium, because I thought Performances, both at 7.30pm Friday 1st or Dalesplay before 6.00pm. If Saturday 26th July , 10.00am to 4.00pm it looked suitably dainty for the front bor- Saturday July 19th St Oswald’s Church you can offer an hour in the Kitchen please Summer Fayre in the Market Hall, Hawes - der. Askrigg let Joanne know 667936. . Morning Coffee, Lunch, Afternoon Tea. What I really need to find at the moment Saturday July 26th St John’s Church East Thank you for all your help and support Various Stalls, Raffle, Tombola. Free is something to grow next to our new Witton for this community event. Lets keep tradi- Entry. porch. We have grown many different tional events alive! Everyone Welcome

10 10 St Oswald's Church, Askrigg Le Tour climbers over the years, and I took out a Everyone Welcome Three special sections in our area are: Prunings Honeysuckle “Hallianna” last year, but as it Saturday 12th July - 7.30 pm - The first King of the Mountains climb A personal take on Plants, Propagating is now thriving elsewhere I need something Performance in Church By 'Young between Cray and Kidstones, the first sprint and other related rural ramblings. new. I have tried Passiflora, which lasted a Voices' (part of the Year of Music at Newbiggin and the second King of the few years before it succumbed to a particu- programme). Entry free. Refreshments Mountains climb up the Buttertubs.. The most wonderful aspect of this time of larly bad winter, and have used Clematis. available. year is colour. The greens in the landscape have matured with the surge of growth, and This time I might return to Clematis and Saturday 19th July - 7.30 pm - Summary of community events everything is pushing out blossom to attract have been researching the evergreen winter Performance by The Wensleydale Chorus July flowering varieties. We don’t have many in church. Saturday 26th July - 1-8 Hardraw Flower Festival wild life so that the cycle can continue. plants which can put on a good show in the Lunchtime Organ Recital by Stephen 2 ‘Cart before the horse’; Dales Today I visited a Plant and Book fair at Kiplin Hall near Scorton. What a tempta- winter so I fancied putting one in, if only to Newlove - Free entry. Countryside museum find out the level of hardiness. It is not very 4,5 King of the Mountains Festival, tion, plants and books in the same place! encouraging to discover that The RHS rec- Muker The books were all second hand and at 3 ommend that in cold areas it should be 4 West Burton Community Festival for £1 represented an opportunity too good Hawes Bike Trail grown in a container and overwintered in a 4 Thoralby Get together with wine to miss, and of course I brought home a greenhouse. That was not my plan! More As part of the Grand Depart and cheese. Village Hall 5.00– bagful. There were lots of fairly ordinary research needed. celebrations we have devised the 7.00pm plants too, but one nursery – Dark Star At Kiplin Hall there was a beautiful Hawes Bike Trail. 4,5 Hawes Community Festival Plants from East Rounton – had some very specimen of the climbing rose Throughout Hawes over 41 bikes are 4 –6 Aysgarth St. Andrew’s Flower interesting ones on offer, and I couldn’t “Compassion” In the sheltered walled gar- displayed by various businesses, inside and Festival. Le Tour with Flowers resist! den it had every chance to be glorious. I out. On 21 of the velocipedes there are 10.00am -5.00pm One of the pretty plants which can be bought one of these in1970 on the recom- letters or figures, but which? 4 Murder Mystery; Bolton Castle seen around dales villages in great profu- mendation of Mr Braithwaite at Leeming You can buy the Entry Form, for £1, in 5 Big screen in Bainbridge sion is Corydalis Lutea. It prefers to live in Bar. It has been my best purchase ever, various shops and pubs around town, 5 Aysgarth Institute: food! a south facing retaining wall where it can because it produces superb scented blooms including Mason’s Newsagents and the 5,6 Thornton Rust Institute; food push it roots back into the ground behind. every year, at least two flushes of colour, Dales Countryside Museum. The 6 Stalling Busk; Reflection and When it is covered in frothy yellow blos- and in a mild Autumn it will still have participant has to find all the letters or Refreshment. Bacon rolls, tea and som as it is just now, people often ask if I flowers in December. That’s hard to beat figures, write in the space next to the coffee. Service at 2.30pm have any for sale. Strangely it is not happy for value. business name then re-arrange to make a 6 Askrigg Town Head Farm Cream to be grown in pots. Although the seeds Good luck! And whatever you grow, take relevant phrase. Completed forms may be Teas germinate well they don’t like to be trans- planted or potted up. It must be the root time to enjoy it. dropped into The Dales Countryside Fuller details appear on other pages. Museum, The White Hart Inn, or The that doesn’t accept being disturbed. My Rose Rambler Community Office or posted to The normal solution is simply to give away the seed as there is always plenty. Many hy- Community Office St.Margaret's Church brids have been developed over the years, Hawes Bonfire Anyone can enter with prizes of £20 for Restoration Fund Raising under 16 years and £20 for over 16 years. and yesterday I bought a blue specimen and Firework Committee Tea, Scones and Stalls in St.Margaret's Corydalis flexuosa “Blue Dragon” It is a The closing date for entries is 31st July. ...will be raising money for the 2014 event Church every Tuesday and Wednesday in very attractive purplish blue with the usual The winning entry will be drawn on and need your help. We will be running the July between 1.00pm and 3.00pm. feathery foliage. Time will tell if it is tough Monday 4th August. Hopper's Refreshment in August on Satur- Saturday 5th July - 10.00am-noon Coffee enough to survive here. day 2nd. Morning and stalls, 2.30 - 4.30pm Tea, I bought an unusual Campanula called If you can spare us an hour or/and bake Scones and stalls plus a stall in the Market “Pink Octopus” which has interesting spi- Wensleydale Chorus 2014 us a cake, or send some bread buns, bacon, Place from 2.30pm with Baking and Crafts. dery flowers, a Ceratostigma plumbagi- This year the Wensleydale Chorus will be coffee etc it would be hugely appreciated. Friday 18th July, 7.30pm - A concert by noides for its blue flowers and autumn col- singing the Masse di Gloria by Puccini and They can be dropped off with Joanne Muker Band - Entry - £6.00 on the door. our, and completed my collection with yet the Diabelli Pastoral Mass in F opus 147. Fothergill at 39 Little Ings after 6.30pm on Raffle - Tea/Coffee in the interval. another hardy Geranium, because I thought Performances, both at 7.30pm Friday 1st or Dalesplay before 6.00pm. If Saturday 26th July , 10.00am to 4.00pm it looked suitably dainty for the front bor- Saturday July 19th St Oswald’s Church you can offer an hour in the Kitchen please Summer Fayre in the Market Hall, Hawes - der. Askrigg let Joanne know 667936. . Morning Coffee, Lunch, Afternoon Tea. What I really need to find at the moment Saturday July 26th St John’s Church East Thank you for all your help and support Various Stalls, Raffle, Tombola. Free is something to grow next to our new Witton for this community event. Lets keep tradi- Entry. porch. We have grown many different tional events alive! Everyone Welcome

11 11 into the habit of running a scan regularly. GENERAL WHAT’S ON S This applies to mobile devices too – except Gamover Zeus and other nasties iOS mobile devices where Apple will not July 6,16,20,23 Gayle Mill events: See p.3 In the way that is unique to the British allow you to run an antivirus (despite at- 1 Comedy of errors: Bolton Castle. 8 ‘Tour de Force’ at TOSH. See p.5 press the sky was about to fall on us all at tacks increasing on these devices). Off the Bring own seating. Blankets not 8 Induction of the Reverend Lynn any moment – and then silence. Such was top of my head look at the following possi- advised. Adults £12. Children £10. Purvis-Lee as Vicar the Penhill the news of the latest anticipated cyber- ble antivirus products: Booking advised. 623981 Benefice by the Bishop of attack. The BBC put up dire warning and Windows: Free Products : Avast, AVG, 1 Coffee Morning: 10.00am to noon at Knaresborough. 7.30pm in gave links to websites for help that in- Avira, Microsoft Security Essentials. Greystones, Carperby 663714 for St Andrew’s Church, Aysgarth stantly crashed from the panicked response Windows: Paid Products: AVAST, AVG, St Andrew’s Church See p.26 of the public. AVIRA, ESET NOD32 are all very good. 1-6 Hardraw Flower Festival. See p.20 8 YDNPA Planning Committee: In the days following the warnings my MacOS: Sophos make a good free product. 2 Coffee Morning: Bolton-cum- Yoredale, Bainbridge. 1.00pm. phone rang constantly and my answering Android phones and Tablets: Free and paid Redmire PCC Venue now Mr & 8 Brownies’ coffee evening. See p.30 machine filled up with people asking for versions of Lookout (it comes preinstalled Mrs Hall, Dale View, Castle Bolton 9 Guided walk: Mallerstang. Meet advice following the announcement of the on some devices). 623012 Garsdale Stn, 10.30am. 8 miles imminent collapse of society as we know it. IMPORTANT don’t be tempted to install 2 Concert at St Andrew’s, Aysgarth; 11 “Filing Station” at Middleham Key The press have lost interested but I am still more than one Antivirus! 7.30pm. Tickets £8 663368 / Centre. 7.00pm dealing with their aftermath – now with 4) Additionally if you are using Windows, 663097 See p.8 12 St Oswald’s Church, Askrigg: callers wondering why no one is mention- buy a copy of Malwarebytes Antimalware, 3-6 Open days at Aysgarth Station: 7.30pm Performance by the ing it any more. install it and regularly run a scan with it – it 10.00am to 4.00pm. ‘Young Voices’ See p.10 Here is my best effort advice: will also actively protect you while you are 4 Tour de Farce: 7.30pm. Bolton 16 Gayle Mill: Introduction to simple Security advice for everyone who uses online from other internet nasties that don’t Castle. £25. Booking essential. book binding. 10.30am to 4.30pm. 623981 £50 per person. All materials and the internet or email get picked by antivirus programs. 4 Live singer at the Fountain Hotel, lunch included 1) There is no such thing as 100% security 5) For windows users if you are worried Hawes 17 Blame it on Bartle: Gates open – if there was, cyber attacks would never that you may be infected by Gameover 5 Le Tour 6.30pm Bolton Castle. See p.19 happen. As I type, Dominoes Pizza in Zeus then Norton have provided a free tool 5 St Margret’s, Hawes; 10.00am to 17 Hawes W.I. ‘Organic make up’. France and Belgium have been hacked and to scan and repair your system for this par- noon. Coffee Morning. 2.30 to Gayle Institute. 7.00pm. had all their customer details stolen – the ticularly nasty cyber-attack. Go to: http:// 4.30pm. Tea, Scones and stalls 18 Museum Friends Gift Day, talk hackers are holding them to ransom with www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/ and from 2.30pm a stall in the ‘Bishopdale through the ages’. threat of publishing lots of private informa- international-takedown-wounds-gameover- Market Place See p.10 7.30pm. tion if they don’t pay up. The only way you zeus-cybercrime-network and follow the 5,11,18,25 Wensleydale Country 18 A concert by Muker Band: 7.30pm. can be reasonably secure is to follow the instructions carefully. Markets 11.00am to 2.00pm in The Entry £6 in St Margret’s, Hawes steps below and keep your head. That’s it for this month. Thanks to so Old School House 18-20 Wensleydale Railway Diesel Gala 2) First defence – eyes and ears and com- many people for positive comments and 6 Gayle Mill: Guided Tours: 11.00am 18-20 Preston Artists’ annual exhibition. mon sense! Always look before you click – feedback about this column. As ever do and 2.30pm. Ring 667320 for See p.19 read things and take note BEFORE clicking get in touch if you have questions, com- bookings 19 St Oswald’s Church: 7.30pm The (a surprising number of people seem to ments or ideas for future articles. 6 Carperby Open Gardens. See p. 8 Wensleydale Chorus. See p.10 click first and wonder later). When using [email protected] 6 St Matthew’s Church, Stalling Busk: 19 Ingleton Gala Day: From noon search engines make sure the website you or call 663798. The Church will be open for quiet 20 Bainbridge Methodists at Aysgarth. are going to is actually the one you want contemplation after the Tour de 10.45am. (read the web address and check it looks France 20 Gayle Mill: Introduction to right), never click on links when you don’t 6 Open air morning service: West Wheelwrighting. 10.00am to know where they are going for certain; Burton. See p.19 4.30pm. £60 including lunch and don’t just download things and install free- 6 Guided walk: Semerwater and bring and share BBQ afterwards. bies without checking out every screen Raydale. Meet Semerwater 21 Gayle Institute: 11.00am to 3.00pm. carefully and never click on email attach- 1.00pm. 5.5 miles. NB all YDNPA Dogs Trust. Bring your dog to be ments that you don’t expect. The golden walks cost £3 per adult, children chipped rule is BE PARANOID and if in doubt as- under 16 free 21-25 Birds, Boar and Bees: Bolton sume things are NOT genuine 6 Aysgarth Methodist Church, West Castle from 10.00am. 23 Gayle 3) Second defence – Use a good antivirus Burton. 10.45am. Mill: Coptic and Folded Books: program, make sure it is up to date and get 6 Cream teas at Town Head Askrigg. £45 all material and lunch See p.19 included.

12 12 into the habit of running a scan regularly. GENERAL WHAT’S ON S This applies to mobile devices too – except Gamover Zeus and other nasties iOS mobile devices where Apple will not July 6,16,20,23 Gayle Mill events: See p.3 In the way that is unique to the British allow you to run an antivirus (despite at- 1 Comedy of errors: Bolton Castle. 8 ‘Tour de Force’ at TOSH. See p.5 press the sky was about to fall on us all at tacks increasing on these devices). Off the Bring own seating. Blankets not 8 Induction of the Reverend Lynn any moment – and then silence. Such was top of my head look at the following possi- advised. Adults £12. Children £10. Purvis-Lee as Vicar the Penhill the news of the latest anticipated cyber- ble antivirus products: Booking advised. 623981 Benefice by the Bishop of attack. The BBC put up dire warning and Windows: Free Products : Avast, AVG, 1 Coffee Morning: 10.00am to noon at Knaresborough. 7.30pm in gave links to websites for help that in- Avira, Microsoft Security Essentials. Greystones, Carperby 663714 for St Andrew’s Church, Aysgarth stantly crashed from the panicked response Windows: Paid Products: AVAST, AVG, St Andrew’s Church See p.26 of the public. AVIRA, ESET NOD32 are all very good. 1-6 Hardraw Flower Festival. See p.20 8 YDNPA Planning Committee: In the days following the warnings my MacOS: Sophos make a good free product. 2 Coffee Morning: Bolton-cum- Yoredale, Bainbridge. 1.00pm. phone rang constantly and my answering Android phones and Tablets: Free and paid Redmire PCC Venue now Mr & 8 Brownies’ coffee evening. See p.30 machine filled up with people asking for versions of Lookout (it comes preinstalled Mrs Hall, Dale View, Castle Bolton 9 Guided walk: Mallerstang. Meet advice following the announcement of the on some devices). 623012 Garsdale Stn, 10.30am. 8 miles imminent collapse of society as we know it. IMPORTANT don’t be tempted to install 2 Concert at St Andrew’s, Aysgarth; 11 “Filing Station” at Middleham Key The press have lost interested but I am still more than one Antivirus! 7.30pm. Tickets £8 663368 / Centre. 7.00pm dealing with their aftermath – now with 4) Additionally if you are using Windows, 663097 See p.8 12 St Oswald’s Church, Askrigg: callers wondering why no one is mention- buy a copy of Malwarebytes Antimalware, 3-6 Open days at Aysgarth Station: 7.30pm Performance by the ing it any more. install it and regularly run a scan with it – it 10.00am to 4.00pm. ‘Young Voices’ See p.10 Here is my best effort advice: will also actively protect you while you are 4 Tour de Farce: 7.30pm. Bolton 16 Gayle Mill: Introduction to simple Security advice for everyone who uses online from other internet nasties that don’t Castle. £25. Booking essential. book binding. 10.30am to 4.30pm. 623981 £50 per person. All materials and the internet or email get picked by antivirus programs. 4 Live singer at the Fountain Hotel, lunch included 1) There is no such thing as 100% security 5) For windows users if you are worried Hawes 17 Blame it on Bartle: Gates open – if there was, cyber attacks would never that you may be infected by Gameover 5 Le Tour 6.30pm Bolton Castle. See p.19 happen. As I type, Dominoes Pizza in Zeus then Norton have provided a free tool 5 St Margret’s, Hawes; 10.00am to 17 Hawes W.I. ‘Organic make up’. France and Belgium have been hacked and to scan and repair your system for this par- noon. Coffee Morning. 2.30 to Gayle Institute. 7.00pm. had all their customer details stolen – the ticularly nasty cyber-attack. Go to: http:// 4.30pm. Tea, Scones and stalls 18 Museum Friends Gift Day, talk hackers are holding them to ransom with www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/ and from 2.30pm a stall in the ‘Bishopdale through the ages’. threat of publishing lots of private informa- international-takedown-wounds-gameover- Market Place See p.10 7.30pm. tion if they don’t pay up. The only way you zeus-cybercrime-network and follow the 5,11,18,25 Wensleydale Country 18 A concert by Muker Band: 7.30pm. can be reasonably secure is to follow the instructions carefully. Markets 11.00am to 2.00pm in The Entry £6 in St Margret’s, Hawes steps below and keep your head. That’s it for this month. Thanks to so Old School House 18-20 Wensleydale Railway Diesel Gala 2) First defence – eyes and ears and com- many people for positive comments and 6 Gayle Mill: Guided Tours: 11.00am 18-20 Preston Artists’ annual exhibition. mon sense! Always look before you click – feedback about this column. As ever do and 2.30pm. Ring 667320 for See p.19 read things and take note BEFORE clicking get in touch if you have questions, com- bookings 19 St Oswald’s Church: 7.30pm The (a surprising number of people seem to ments or ideas for future articles. 6 Carperby Open Gardens. See p. 8 Wensleydale Chorus. See p.10 click first and wonder later). When using [email protected] 6 St Matthew’s Church, Stalling Busk: 19 Ingleton Gala Day: From noon search engines make sure the website you or call 663798. The Church will be open for quiet 20 Bainbridge Methodists at Aysgarth. are going to is actually the one you want contemplation after the Tour de 10.45am. (read the web address and check it looks France 20 Gayle Mill: Introduction to right), never click on links when you don’t 6 Open air morning service: West Wheelwrighting. 10.00am to know where they are going for certain; Burton. See p.19 4.30pm. £60 including lunch and don’t just download things and install free- 6 Guided walk: Semerwater and bring and share BBQ afterwards. bies without checking out every screen Raydale. Meet Semerwater 21 Gayle Institute: 11.00am to 3.00pm. carefully and never click on email attach- 1.00pm. 5.5 miles. NB all YDNPA Dogs Trust. Bring your dog to be ments that you don’t expect. The golden walks cost £3 per adult, children chipped rule is BE PARANOID and if in doubt as- under 16 free 21-25 Birds, Boar and Bees: Bolton sume things are NOT genuine 6 Aysgarth Methodist Church, West Castle from 10.00am. 23 Gayle 3) Second defence – Use a good antivirus Burton. 10.45am. Mill: Coptic and Folded Books: program, make sure it is up to date and get 6 Cream teas at Town Head Askrigg. £45 all material and lunch See p.19 included.

13 13 DCM What’s On Hawes School News Exhibitions: On Tuesday 10th June, Class 3 and Class 4 GENERAL WHAT’S ON S (CONTINUED) 13 June—30 September in the Ex- went to Harrogate to go to the countryside 23 Guided walk: Meet Aysgarth Falls 26,27 Leyburn ‘Home Front Village Fair’ hibition Hall day. It was a great day out! N. Pk. Centre. 11.00am. 7 miles 26,27 ‘Tournee’. 10.00am to 5.00pm. Yorkshire Dales Journeys: Our first event was the woodlands. We went 24 Wild Wednesday. Activities for Bolton Castle. Discover all about An exhibition celebrating the 60th on the search for three different types of leaf accompanied children. Meet military life in the 1300s. anniversary of the YDNP and the journey which we turned into a bookmark. The next Aysgarth Upper Falls from 11.00am. 27 Bainbridge Methodist Service in of the Tour de France 2014 through the event was the sheep show there was dancing 24 Wildlife in Snaizeholme. Meet Mirk Pot Sycamore Hall Dales sheep and it was very funny to see! Next we House, 2.00pm. 27 Monthly Table-top sale in Hawes July had dinner before the next event which was 26 NSPCC event, Redmire. See p.29 Market Hall for Primary School 2 Trick cycle workshop: 2.00 to the northern power grid where we learnt 26 St Oswald’s Church: Lunchtime Organ 27 Burtersett Show. See p.6 3.30pm.8 available places suitable about how it is dangerous to go near wires. recital by Stephen Newlove. See p.10 31 Gayle Ladies ‘Strawberry Fayre’ for 12 yrs and upwards. Required We also got to see active electricity going 26 Hawes Town Trail: Meet Hawes N. Pk 7.30pm to be a competent cyclist, and a from one wire to another and answer a quiz. Centre, 1.15pm. clean bike in good order The next event was the sheepdog show. We 26 St Margret’s Church, Hawes: Summer 2 Cart before Horse: 10 min show by saw lots of sheepdogs chasing geese around Fair. See p.10 Stumble dance Circus: 11.30am, and into a cage. The fifth and final event was 12.45 and 4.30pm. the arts and crafts where we made a collage 13 Art in Wood; Margaret Garrard of a tree. We went to look at some cockerels demonstrates her woodturning and some of us made a grasshopper for Bainbridge Sports Wensleydale Railway News skills; 10.00am to 4.00pm th a contest and we came third. It was a fun Monday 30 June, from 6.00pm. Trains run between Leeming Bar and 18 Friends of the Museum Gift Day time. Fancy Dress judging will be at 7.30 pm and Redmire on most days in July (except 20 Pathfinder course: Intermediate; Jake Alderson, Sophie Walker Hawes Band will lead the procession. Wed/Thurs July 2/3 and Mondays 14 & 21) 10.30am to 4.30pm. and Scott Barningham (Year 4) The fair as usual will be in attendance. What’s and there are special timetables for the 23,30 Craft for Kids: 1.30 to 4.30pm. A the betting that cycling/France/Wiggins will ap- Grand Depart (Sat July 5) and a Diesel fun session for 5+. £3 per child Sponsored Walk pear as themes, to complement all the yellow Gala on July 18/19/20. 24 Seeing Red: 2.00 to 3.00pm. Join We held our annual sponsored walk on cycles festooned around the village? Area Ranger Matt Neale to hear Wednesday 11th June – we were lucky with Neil McNair of Low Mill Guest House has SATURDAY JULY 5: On Grand Depart about the conservation of Red the weather and are very grateful to Mark and churned out now 150 bikes, making more than Day trains will run an extended timetable Squirrels Yvonne at the Green Dragon, Hardraw who £1000 for the Air Ambulance He must wish he'd between Leeming Bar- Bedale-Finghall 25 Victorian Kitchen: 11.00am to very kindly let us use their toilet facilities. never started! But he doesn't want to say no as Lane-Leyburn-Redmire as follows: 3.00pm. Becky provided a lovely picnic lunch for it's for a good cause, and Andris Bergs has FIRST TRAIN from Leeming Bar to Red- 25-26 Family Archaeology Activities: when we got back which the children thor- carved the tree stump on the green into some mire 07.30; LAST TRAIN to Leeming Bar 10.00am to 4.00pm. oughly enjoyed. We would like to thank the interesting sheepy/bikey shapes. from Redmire departs 19.15 26 Learn to dry stone wall: 10.00am to parents and helpers who accompanied us on (from Leyburn 19.29). IN ADDITION 4.00pm. Volunteers will show you the walk. there will be a part line service the basic skills used in this craft. Poppy Peace Wall dep Leyburn for Leeming Bar at 06.30 Not suitable for children. Stout and return dep Leeming Bar at 20.35 for boots, waterproofs and gloves re- As the centenary of the First World War ap- Leyburn. quired. Adults £10. Booking proaches, the Poppy Peace Wall on the railings Wensleydale Railway's trains will run every required. of the Quaker Meeting House in Bainbridge is day in August, with Open Days at Aysgarth 26 Hawes Town Trail: 1.15 to 3.15pm. available for posts and you are invited and wel- station on July 3-6, on Yorkshire Day, Fri- 27 Moth Identification: 11.00am to come to add your uncensored contribution about day August 1 and on BH week-end 23-25 2.30pm An informal session to anything which is important to you August.. Special events in July and August help you identify these creatures The Meeting House is open on Wednesdays are shown on the 'Events - More Info' calen- 29 Dry stone walling demonstration: 10.00am to noon and manned by volunteers to With five sessions between dar page on www.wensleydalerailway.com. provide materials for making your contribution 11. 00am and 3.00pm. Please check with care for different timeta- and to answer any questions about the Exhibition 31 Country Kitchen: 2.00 to 4.00pm. bles, dates of steam trains and summer spe- on display of the Friends Ambulance Unit which Join Aunt Martha to reminisce cial events (some bookable) or phone WR was manned by conscientious objectors, and in- about tradition recipes. office on 08454 50 54 74. cluded local men. A Big Thank You All walks cost £3 per adult, children un- ….to all those who braved the weather and der 16 free. Check with DCM for booking. came to the Craft Fair in Askrigg in aid of the For further information on any activity Air Ambulance. ’phone 666210 ‘ We raised £281. Lisa Webb

14 14 DCM What’s On Hawes School News Exhibitions: On Tuesday 10th June, Class 3 and Class 4 GENERAL WHAT’S ON S (CONTINUED) 13 June—30 September in the Ex- went to Harrogate to go to the countryside 23 Guided walk: Meet Aysgarth Falls 26,27 Leyburn ‘Home Front Village Fair’ hibition Hall day. It was a great day out! N. Pk. Centre. 11.00am. 7 miles 26,27 ‘Tournee’. 10.00am to 5.00pm. Yorkshire Dales Journeys: Our first event was the woodlands. We went 24 Wild Wednesday. Activities for Bolton Castle. Discover all about An exhibition celebrating the 60th on the search for three different types of leaf accompanied children. Meet military life in the 1300s. anniversary of the YDNP and the journey which we turned into a bookmark. The next Aysgarth Upper Falls from 11.00am. 27 Bainbridge Methodist Service in of the Tour de France 2014 through the event was the sheep show there was dancing 24 Wildlife in Snaizeholme. Meet Mirk Pot Sycamore Hall Dales sheep and it was very funny to see! Next we House, 2.00pm. 27 Monthly Table-top sale in Hawes July had dinner before the next event which was 26 NSPCC event, Redmire. See p.29 Market Hall for Primary School 2 Trick cycle workshop: 2.00 to the northern power grid where we learnt 26 St Oswald’s Church: Lunchtime Organ 27 Burtersett Show. See p.6 3.30pm.8 available places suitable about how it is dangerous to go near wires. recital by Stephen Newlove. See p.10 31 Gayle Ladies ‘Strawberry Fayre’ for 12 yrs and upwards. Required We also got to see active electricity going 26 Hawes Town Trail: Meet Hawes N. Pk 7.30pm to be a competent cyclist, and a from one wire to another and answer a quiz. Centre, 1.15pm. clean bike in good order The next event was the sheepdog show. We 26 St Margret’s Church, Hawes: Summer 2 Cart before Horse: 10 min show by saw lots of sheepdogs chasing geese around Fair. See p.10 Stumble dance Circus: 11.30am, and into a cage. The fifth and final event was 12.45 and 4.30pm. the arts and crafts where we made a collage 13 Art in Wood; Margaret Garrard of a tree. We went to look at some cockerels demonstrates her woodturning and some of us made a grasshopper for Bainbridge Sports Wensleydale Railway News skills; 10.00am to 4.00pm th a contest and we came third. It was a fun Monday 30 June, from 6.00pm. Trains run between Leeming Bar and 18 Friends of the Museum Gift Day time. Fancy Dress judging will be at 7.30 pm and Redmire on most days in July (except 20 Pathfinder course: Intermediate; Jake Alderson, Sophie Walker Hawes Band will lead the procession. Wed/Thurs July 2/3 and Mondays 14 & 21) 10.30am to 4.30pm. and Scott Barningham (Year 4) The fair as usual will be in attendance. What’s and there are special timetables for the 23,30 Craft for Kids: 1.30 to 4.30pm. A the betting that cycling/France/Wiggins will ap- Grand Depart (Sat July 5) and a Diesel fun session for 5+. £3 per child Sponsored Walk pear as themes, to complement all the yellow Gala on July 18/19/20. 24 Seeing Red: 2.00 to 3.00pm. Join We held our annual sponsored walk on cycles festooned around the village? Area Ranger Matt Neale to hear Wednesday 11th June – we were lucky with Neil McNair of Low Mill Guest House has SATURDAY JULY 5: On Grand Depart about the conservation of Red the weather and are very grateful to Mark and churned out now 150 bikes, making more than Day trains will run an extended timetable Squirrels Yvonne at the Green Dragon, Hardraw who £1000 for the Air Ambulance He must wish he'd between Leeming Bar- Bedale-Finghall 25 Victorian Kitchen: 11.00am to very kindly let us use their toilet facilities. never started! But he doesn't want to say no as Lane-Leyburn-Redmire as follows: 3.00pm. Becky provided a lovely picnic lunch for it's for a good cause, and Andris Bergs has FIRST TRAIN from Leeming Bar to Red- 25-26 Family Archaeology Activities: when we got back which the children thor- carved the tree stump on the green into some mire 07.30; LAST TRAIN to Leeming Bar 10.00am to 4.00pm. oughly enjoyed. We would like to thank the interesting sheepy/bikey shapes. from Redmire departs 19.15 26 Learn to dry stone wall: 10.00am to parents and helpers who accompanied us on (from Leyburn 19.29). IN ADDITION 4.00pm. Volunteers will show you the walk. there will be a part line service the basic skills used in this craft. Poppy Peace Wall dep Leyburn for Leeming Bar at 06.30 Not suitable for children. Stout and return dep Leeming Bar at 20.35 for boots, waterproofs and gloves re- As the centenary of the First World War ap- Leyburn. quired. Adults £10. Booking proaches, the Poppy Peace Wall on the railings Wensleydale Railway's trains will run every required. of the Quaker Meeting House in Bainbridge is day in August, with Open Days at Aysgarth 26 Hawes Town Trail: 1.15 to 3.15pm. available for posts and you are invited and wel- station on July 3-6, on Yorkshire Day, Fri- 27 Moth Identification: 11.00am to come to add your uncensored contribution about day August 1 and on BH week-end 23-25 2.30pm An informal session to anything which is important to you August.. Special events in July and August help you identify these creatures The Meeting House is open on Wednesdays are shown on the 'Events - More Info' calen- 29 Dry stone walling demonstration: 10.00am to noon and manned by volunteers to With five sessions between dar page on www.wensleydalerailway.com. provide materials for making your contribution 11. 00am and 3.00pm. Please check with care for different timeta- and to answer any questions about the Exhibition 31 Country Kitchen: 2.00 to 4.00pm. bles, dates of steam trains and summer spe- on display of the Friends Ambulance Unit which Join Aunt Martha to reminisce cial events (some bookable) or phone WR was manned by conscientious objectors, and in- about tradition recipes. office on 08454 50 54 74. cluded local men. A Big Thank You All walks cost £3 per adult, children un- ….to all those who braved the weather and der 16 free. Check with DCM for booking. came to the Craft Fair in Askrigg in aid of the For further information on any activity Air Ambulance. ’phone 666210 ‘ We raised £281. Lisa Webb

15 15 Heavens Above have a really clear horizon to catch sight of it. Upper Dales Healthwatch Summer's here and the With all the hullabaloo over this month's The patient participation group for the Cen- springtime constellations Grand Depart I've been trying to come up tral Dales GP Practice have faded away into the with some connection between cycling and long evening twilight. astronomy. There's an asteroid called after The children in Dalesplay have been busy Synopsis of the meeting, 12th May 2014 Orange Arcturus, which Lance Armstrong but as he's now in dis- preparing for the Tour de France, as you will dominated the eastern grace perhaps this shouldn't count. There's There is no extra income available from any- see from the outside of Dalesplay. We have part of the sky during March and April, is another named Wiggins and a Moon crater where within the NHS to support deeply rural now hung up our beautifully decorated bikes now well over in the west. Bright yellow called Cavendish but neither of these has practices. and bunting to welcome the visitors and cy- any connection with the biking boys con- Defibrillators are in the process of being clists. Owing to the expected high numbers of Capella in the Charioteer - almost overhead th in winter - sits right on the northern hori- cerned. Never say die, however, and after a obtained for Bainbridge, Thornton Rust, people travelling to Hawes on Friday 4 July zon. In the north-east the 'W' of Cassiopeia bit of head scratching (and lots of research Thoralby, West Burton, Aysgarth and Pre- we have been advised to close at 1.00pm as is gaining height. The Plough, on the oppo- on Wikipedia!) I have finally came up with ston-under-Scar. parents may not be able to collect their chil- site side of the pole star, has wheeled into a link. There used to be a British bicycle Dr Jones said he wanted to encourage a dren after this time and staff may not be able the north-west. In the east the Great Square firm called Hercules named after the leg- positive approach to the challenges ahead, and to get home. We are all very excited about the of Pegasus is just beginning to come into endary strongman of ancient Greece. (The very much welcomed the support of the Upper upcoming event and will be open as usual on view. Great Reg Harris - now he were a real cy- Dales Health Watch Group of local represen- all other days. Much of the low southern sky is filled by clist - rode his first competitive race in an tatives in helping the Practice to offer the best The nursery children have begun their tran- the rather lack-lustre constellations of event organised by Hercules). The com- service possible to patients. sition to school by visiting school nursery Serpens the Serpent, and Ophiuchus the pany is now sadly defunct but the constella- At the end of the 7 years the Practice would every Monday morning with their key work- Serpent Bearer. Ophiuchus is an old con- tion of Hercules is still on show. For the have a decreased annual budget of £25-31K. ers. They have really enjoyed getting to know stellation associated with Aesculapius the next few months you'll find it roughly Residents need to be encouraged to register their wonderful new teacher, Miss Caygill and legendary Healer of the Ancient Greeks. halfway up the southern sky by late eve- with a GP practice when they move into the familiarising themselves with the environment He's usually depicted carrying a serpent ning. It looks nothing like a bike. Have area (not just when they first need a doctor). ready for them starting in September. We are entwined around a staff, a symbol still used clear skies! Appointments need to be encouraged if a pa- confident they will all settle in really well. today to represent the medical profession. Al Bireo tient does not need immediate medical help. We have been transforming our role-play High in the south-east you'll find the Telephone appointments are also encouraged. area into a Rocket and looking at what is be- brilliant trio of stars forming the 'Summer West Burton School News Home visits take place whenever necessary yond the clouds through stories and games. Triangle' – Vega, Deneb and Altair. Like after morning surgeries. The children have been making moon rock buns and spaceships of their own. We made Orion in winter, the Triangle is an abiding West Burton School has had a busy start to Anyone wishing to see a specific GP can our Daddies’ spaceship cards/ pictures to tell feature of the night sky right through sum- the half term, including taking part in the always pre-book with a GP of their choice. them how much we love them and pretended mer and well into autumn. Bikeability scheme and a Kwik Cricket The views of Central Dales patients are to walk on the moon. Just above the southern horizon around competition. Bikeability started on the first needed so as to help the Practice provide as From September we will be offering a one o'clock you'll find part of the constella- day back after half-term and we learned good a service as possible. The following pickup service from Bainbridge nursery. If tion of Sagittarius the Archer. Its brightest about road safety whilst riding our bikes. issues were discussed: sound proofing in sur- you are interested in using this service please stars form a distinctive pattern known as Although the instructors were very strict, geries, minor alterations to surgery reception contact us on 667789 or dales- The Teapot. It's easy to recognise and we learned skills that will help us be safe areas, staff photos and dedicated UDHW no- [email protected]. points downwards with the handle to the on the roads throughout life. tice boards and suggestion boxes in both sur- We are very pleased to inform everyone that left and the spout to the right. The dense Kwik Cricket took place at The geries. we have just undergone an Ofsted inspection; star clouds towards the centre of the Galaxy Wensleydale School, during the second Any complaints will be dealt with sensi- our inspector was very impressed with the lie just below the Teapot – a glorious sight week of June. It was a beautiful, sunny day tively by the Practice Manager. A copy of the high quality care we provide the children in on a dark, moonless night. and perfect for cricket. This was a cluster complaints procedure is available on request. the dales and awarded us a ‘Good’. Our Of- On the planetary front we've lost Jupiter tournament and everyone showed good The Practice is gearing up to launch Syst- sted report is now available on the Ofsted in the Sun's glare for now, but Mars and team spirit. We shared transport with Bain- mOnline which will allow patients to have a website; please take a look. If you need care Saturn are still with us. Mars is low in the bridge and Askrigg schools and we all en- unique username and password to logon and for your children we are here to help. Dales- south-west in the evening and sets around joyed meeting up for what was another order repeat medications and check/cancel play offers childcare for children aged 0- mid-night. Saturn lies to the east of Mars in fantastic sports opportunity. appointments. 14years and offer this on a flexible monthly Libra and sets around 1 o'clock in the We are looking forward to the many Bids for funding by the Upper Dales Health booking system. We also offer two and three morning. Venus is in the early morning sky events still planned before the end of term. Watch could be very helpful for specific items government funded places for children in the very low in the NE from 3.00am onwards. These include a visit from our link school e.g. Anti-coagulation Near Patient testing kit dales. Feel free to ask for more information or Between July 12-25th Mercury lies just to from Leeds and our end of term celebra- or a GP defibrillator. visit our website www.dalesplay.co.uk the lower left of Venus but you'll have to tions Jane Ritchie, Hon. Secretary Joanne Fothergill

16 16 Heavens Above have a really clear horizon to catch sight of it. Upper Dales Healthwatch Summer's here and the With all the hullabaloo over this month's The patient participation group for the Cen- springtime constellations Grand Depart I've been trying to come up tral Dales GP Practice have faded away into the with some connection between cycling and long evening twilight. astronomy. There's an asteroid called after The children in Dalesplay have been busy Synopsis of the meeting, 12th May 2014 Orange Arcturus, which Lance Armstrong but as he's now in dis- preparing for the Tour de France, as you will dominated the eastern grace perhaps this shouldn't count. There's There is no extra income available from any- see from the outside of Dalesplay. We have part of the sky during March and April, is another named Wiggins and a Moon crater where within the NHS to support deeply rural now hung up our beautifully decorated bikes now well over in the west. Bright yellow called Cavendish but neither of these has practices. and bunting to welcome the visitors and cy- any connection with the biking boys con- Defibrillators are in the process of being clists. Owing to the expected high numbers of Capella in the Charioteer - almost overhead th in winter - sits right on the northern hori- cerned. Never say die, however, and after a obtained for Bainbridge, Thornton Rust, people travelling to Hawes on Friday 4 July zon. In the north-east the 'W' of Cassiopeia bit of head scratching (and lots of research Thoralby, West Burton, Aysgarth and Pre- we have been advised to close at 1.00pm as is gaining height. The Plough, on the oppo- on Wikipedia!) I have finally came up with ston-under-Scar. parents may not be able to collect their chil- site side of the pole star, has wheeled into a link. There used to be a British bicycle Dr Jones said he wanted to encourage a dren after this time and staff may not be able the north-west. In the east the Great Square firm called Hercules named after the leg- positive approach to the challenges ahead, and to get home. We are all very excited about the of Pegasus is just beginning to come into endary strongman of ancient Greece. (The very much welcomed the support of the Upper upcoming event and will be open as usual on view. Great Reg Harris - now he were a real cy- Dales Health Watch Group of local represen- all other days. Much of the low southern sky is filled by clist - rode his first competitive race in an tatives in helping the Practice to offer the best The nursery children have begun their tran- the rather lack-lustre constellations of event organised by Hercules). The com- service possible to patients. sition to school by visiting school nursery Serpens the Serpent, and Ophiuchus the pany is now sadly defunct but the constella- At the end of the 7 years the Practice would every Monday morning with their key work- Serpent Bearer. Ophiuchus is an old con- tion of Hercules is still on show. For the have a decreased annual budget of £25-31K. ers. They have really enjoyed getting to know stellation associated with Aesculapius the next few months you'll find it roughly Residents need to be encouraged to register their wonderful new teacher, Miss Caygill and legendary Healer of the Ancient Greeks. halfway up the southern sky by late eve- with a GP practice when they move into the familiarising themselves with the environment He's usually depicted carrying a serpent ning. It looks nothing like a bike. Have area (not just when they first need a doctor). ready for them starting in September. We are entwined around a staff, a symbol still used clear skies! Appointments need to be encouraged if a pa- confident they will all settle in really well. today to represent the medical profession. Al Bireo tient does not need immediate medical help. We have been transforming our role-play High in the south-east you'll find the Telephone appointments are also encouraged. area into a Rocket and looking at what is be- brilliant trio of stars forming the 'Summer West Burton School News Home visits take place whenever necessary yond the clouds through stories and games. Triangle' – Vega, Deneb and Altair. Like after morning surgeries. The children have been making moon rock buns and spaceships of their own. We made Orion in winter, the Triangle is an abiding West Burton School has had a busy start to Anyone wishing to see a specific GP can our Daddies’ spaceship cards/ pictures to tell feature of the night sky right through sum- the half term, including taking part in the always pre-book with a GP of their choice. them how much we love them and pretended mer and well into autumn. Bikeability scheme and a Kwik Cricket The views of Central Dales patients are to walk on the moon. Just above the southern horizon around competition. Bikeability started on the first needed so as to help the Practice provide as From September we will be offering a one o'clock you'll find part of the constella- day back after half-term and we learned good a service as possible. The following pickup service from Bainbridge nursery. If tion of Sagittarius the Archer. Its brightest about road safety whilst riding our bikes. issues were discussed: sound proofing in sur- you are interested in using this service please stars form a distinctive pattern known as Although the instructors were very strict, geries, minor alterations to surgery reception contact us on 667789 or dales- The Teapot. It's easy to recognise and we learned skills that will help us be safe areas, staff photos and dedicated UDHW no- [email protected]. points downwards with the handle to the on the roads throughout life. tice boards and suggestion boxes in both sur- We are very pleased to inform everyone that left and the spout to the right. The dense Kwik Cricket took place at The geries. we have just undergone an Ofsted inspection; star clouds towards the centre of the Galaxy Wensleydale School, during the second Any complaints will be dealt with sensi- our inspector was very impressed with the lie just below the Teapot – a glorious sight week of June. It was a beautiful, sunny day tively by the Practice Manager. A copy of the high quality care we provide the children in on a dark, moonless night. and perfect for cricket. This was a cluster complaints procedure is available on request. the dales and awarded us a ‘Good’. Our Of- On the planetary front we've lost Jupiter tournament and everyone showed good The Practice is gearing up to launch Syst- sted report is now available on the Ofsted in the Sun's glare for now, but Mars and team spirit. We shared transport with Bain- mOnline which will allow patients to have a website; please take a look. If you need care Saturn are still with us. Mars is low in the bridge and Askrigg schools and we all en- unique username and password to logon and for your children we are here to help. Dales- south-west in the evening and sets around joyed meeting up for what was another order repeat medications and check/cancel play offers childcare for children aged 0- mid-night. Saturn lies to the east of Mars in fantastic sports opportunity. appointments. 14years and offer this on a flexible monthly Libra and sets around 1 o'clock in the We are looking forward to the many Bids for funding by the Upper Dales Health booking system. We also offer two and three morning. Venus is in the early morning sky events still planned before the end of term. Watch could be very helpful for specific items government funded places for children in the very low in the NE from 3.00am onwards. These include a visit from our link school e.g. Anti-coagulation Near Patient testing kit dales. Feel free to ask for more information or Between July 12-25th Mercury lies just to from Leeds and our end of term celebra- or a GP defibrillator. visit our website www.dalesplay.co.uk the lower left of Venus but you'll have to tions Jane Ritchie, Hon. Secretary Joanne Fothergill

17 17 Doctors’ Rotas Supplied by the Health Centre information and tickets can be found at www.northcountrytheatre.com or by tele- AYSGARTH SURGERY ROTA Wb - week beginning HAWES SURGERY ROTA Wb - week beginning Who’s to Blame? phoning 01748 825288 Wb Jun 30th July 7th 14th 21st 28th Wb Jun 30th July 7th 14th 21st 28th After the spectacle comes the spectacular! Day am pm am pm am pm am pm am pm Day am pm am pm am pm am pm am pm Six large scale outdoor theatre perform- Mon WB WB F F FB FB JF JF J J Mon JF JF BJ BJ J J B B F F ances of Blame it on Bartle! presented by Tues JF JF BJ BJ J J B B F F Tues BW BW F F FB FB FJ FJ J J North Country Theatre, the people of Wed J J F F B B J J J J Wed B B J J J J B B F F Swaledale, Wensleydale and Gudbrandsda- Thur B B B B J J B B F F Thur F F J J F F F F W W len [Norway] with live music, giant pup- Fri F F B B F F F F W W Fri J J F F B B J J J J pets, dancing and plenty of action and en- tertainment. Doctors, B-Brown, F - France, J - Jones, W - West , C - Closed Doctors: B-Brown, F - France, J - Jones, W - West , C - Closed As the Tour de France cyclists pedal out Morning Surgery: 9.00 - 10.30 am no appointments Morning Surgery: 8.45-10.15am Tues till 10.45 no appts of Richmondshire the stages will be put up Afternoon Surgery: 4.00 - 5.30 pm appointment only Afternoon Surgery: 5- 6.00pm Tues 1.30-4.00 appts only for this amazing tale of trolls, trials and For appointments and all enquiries ring 663222 For appointments and all enquiries ring 667200 tribulation plus Wensleydale’s own version of the Wicker-man. Blame it on Bartle! starts at Richmond Castle on 10th and 11th DCM - Exhibition July before moving up the dale to Grinton The current exhibition at the Dales Coun- Lodge on 13th then across into Wensleydale tryside Museum is entitled ‘Yorkshire with performances at Castle Bolton on 17th Dales Journeys’. It features material gath- and Kiplin Hall on 19th and 20th. ered through the Daisy Daisy project. Over 40 performers will create this spec- We’ve had a fantastic response to our re- tacular theatrical event, with a live band, The photograph taken by Beki Harrison, quest for stories, with about a 100 people English and Norwegian folk dancing and shows the Giant Knitter of Fate prowling sending in photos and stories of cycling in mad cap chases across the crags. Watch as the streets of Richmond in search of the Yorkshire Dales. People have also been the giant Knitter of Fate tries to unravel the Bartle! very generous in offering material on loan blame game that develops in the lead min- for the exhibition. Jan Bee Brown – a col- ing communities of the early 19th century, laborative artist has worked with us to cre- join in the fun and celebrations of Reeth Annual Artists’ Exhibition ate the film featured in the exhibition. She Bartle Fair and discover what horrors lurk Preston Under Scar held a “Bums on Seats” event at the Mu- deep in the mines. July 18th –20th 10.00am to 6.00pm seum at which visitors could create their Application forms are available from: Written by Nobby Dimon this is the third Selling exhibition of paintings and crafts own cycle seat cover from recycled materi- Richmondshire.gov.uk Richmondshire Community play developed made by local residents. als. They also gave names to the “recycled” by North Country Theatre and gives ama- Free entry; donations to Herriot Hospice. seats created by Jan and which are dis- teur performers a unique opportunity to Refreshments available played along side Daisy the tandem. work alongside professional actors and Material on show includes wonderful Yorebridge Sport musicians under the direction of a profes- photographs like that of Minnie Cowper, sional director. Taking the idea of a Peer who in the late 19th century found freedom and Fitness Centre West Burton Village Green Great North Air Ambulance Gynt for the Dales, the company have Open Air Shake Up on her Rudge Whitworth bicycle and mem- th linked up with Richmond’s twin town of bers of the Sheffield Sports Cycling club Clothes collection - Friday September 5 Sunday July 6th 10.45am Nord Fron Kommune in Norway [home to Contemporary Christian Worship. and the Eckington Wheelers who came to the Peer Gynt legend] and collaborated cycle the Dales in the 1950s. We would be very grateful for any clothes, Light lunch to follow in village hall. shoes, bags (including suitcases), belts, with Peer Gynt Teater to bring over seven We hope that people will enjoy reading young performers to be part of the produc- the stories, seeing the photos of early cy- towels, curtains, bed linen (not duvets or pillows). Please bag them up and leave tion. cling in the area and that they will add their All venues open early for people to picnic Cream Tea own snippets too. They can always tweet or them outside the centre front door (next to before the start of the performances which at Town Head Farm, Askrigg facebook their photos for us to include the blue outdoor store) from Wednesday September 3rd onwards up to 1pm on Fri- begin at 7.30pm [except for Grinton which In aid of the Eve appeal and @Dalesmuseum as the exhibition will be th is a 7.00pm start]. here all summer. day 5 . Thank you for your support of this Macmillan Cancer support worthy cause. Any queries just contact us People need to bring their own seating and The exhibition runs until September 30th. dress for an outdoor performance. More July 6th 3.00pm onwards Fiona Rosher, Museum Manager on 650060 or email at admin@yorebridge-

18 18 Doctors’ Rotas Supplied by the Health Centre information and tickets can be found at www.northcountrytheatre.com or by tele- AYSGARTH SURGERY ROTA Wb - week beginning HAWES SURGERY ROTA Wb - week beginning Who’s to Blame? phoning 01748 825288 Wb Jun 30th July 7th 14th 21st 28th Wb Jun 30th July 7th 14th 21st 28th After the spectacle comes the spectacular! Day am pm am pm am pm am pm am pm Day am pm am pm am pm am pm am pm Six large scale outdoor theatre perform- Mon WB WB F F FB FB JF JF J J Mon JF JF BJ BJ J J B B F F ances of Blame it on Bartle! presented by Tues JF JF BJ BJ J J B B F F Tues BW BW F F FB FB FJ FJ J J North Country Theatre, the people of Wed J J F F B B J J J J Wed B B J J J J B B F F Swaledale, Wensleydale and Gudbrandsda- Thur B B B B J J B B F F Thur F F J J F F F F W W len [Norway] with live music, giant pup- Fri F F B B F F F F W W Fri J J F F B B J J J J pets, dancing and plenty of action and en- tertainment. Doctors, B-Brown, F - France, J - Jones, W - West , C - Closed Doctors: B-Brown, F - France, J - Jones, W - West , C - Closed As the Tour de France cyclists pedal out Morning Surgery: 9.00 - 10.30 am no appointments Morning Surgery: 8.45-10.15am Tues till 10.45 no appts of Richmondshire the stages will be put up Afternoon Surgery: 4.00 - 5.30 pm appointment only Afternoon Surgery: 5- 6.00pm Tues 1.30-4.00 appts only for this amazing tale of trolls, trials and For appointments and all enquiries ring 663222 For appointments and all enquiries ring 667200 tribulation plus Wensleydale’s own version of the Wicker-man. Blame it on Bartle! starts at Richmond Castle on 10th and 11th DCM - Exhibition July before moving up the dale to Grinton The current exhibition at the Dales Coun- Lodge on 13th then across into Wensleydale tryside Museum is entitled ‘Yorkshire with performances at Castle Bolton on 17th Dales Journeys’. It features material gath- and Kiplin Hall on 19th and 20th. ered through the Daisy Daisy project. Over 40 performers will create this spec- We’ve had a fantastic response to our re- tacular theatrical event, with a live band, The photograph taken by Beki Harrison, quest for stories, with about a 100 people English and Norwegian folk dancing and shows the Giant Knitter of Fate prowling sending in photos and stories of cycling in mad cap chases across the crags. Watch as the streets of Richmond in search of the Yorkshire Dales. People have also been the giant Knitter of Fate tries to unravel the Bartle! very generous in offering material on loan blame game that develops in the lead min- for the exhibition. Jan Bee Brown – a col- ing communities of the early 19th century, laborative artist has worked with us to cre- join in the fun and celebrations of Reeth Annual Artists’ Exhibition ate the film featured in the exhibition. She Bartle Fair and discover what horrors lurk Preston Under Scar held a “Bums on Seats” event at the Mu- deep in the mines. July 18th –20th 10.00am to 6.00pm seum at which visitors could create their Application forms are available from: Written by Nobby Dimon this is the third Selling exhibition of paintings and crafts own cycle seat cover from recycled materi- Richmondshire.gov.uk Richmondshire Community play developed made by local residents. als. They also gave names to the “recycled” by North Country Theatre and gives ama- Free entry; donations to Herriot Hospice. seats created by Jan and which are dis- teur performers a unique opportunity to Refreshments available played along side Daisy the tandem. work alongside professional actors and Material on show includes wonderful Yorebridge Sport musicians under the direction of a profes- photographs like that of Minnie Cowper, sional director. Taking the idea of a Peer who in the late 19th century found freedom and Fitness Centre West Burton Village Green Great North Air Ambulance Gynt for the Dales, the company have Open Air Shake Up on her Rudge Whitworth bicycle and mem- th linked up with Richmond’s twin town of bers of the Sheffield Sports Cycling club Clothes collection - Friday September 5 Sunday July 6th 10.45am Nord Fron Kommune in Norway [home to Contemporary Christian Worship. and the Eckington Wheelers who came to the Peer Gynt legend] and collaborated cycle the Dales in the 1950s. We would be very grateful for any clothes, Light lunch to follow in village hall. shoes, bags (including suitcases), belts, with Peer Gynt Teater to bring over seven We hope that people will enjoy reading young performers to be part of the produc- the stories, seeing the photos of early cy- towels, curtains, bed linen (not duvets or pillows). Please bag them up and leave tion. cling in the area and that they will add their All venues open early for people to picnic Cream Tea own snippets too. They can always tweet or them outside the centre front door (next to before the start of the performances which at Town Head Farm, Askrigg facebook their photos for us to include the blue outdoor store) from Wednesday September 3rd onwards up to 1pm on Fri- begin at 7.30pm [except for Grinton which In aid of the Eve appeal and @Dalesmuseum as the exhibition will be th is a 7.00pm start]. here all summer. day 5 . Thank you for your support of this Macmillan Cancer support worthy cause. Any queries just contact us People need to bring their own seating and The exhibition runs until September 30th. dress for an outdoor performance. More July 6th 3.00pm onwards Fiona Rosher, Museum Manager on 650060 or email at admin@yorebridge-

19 19 Bainbridge School News a lady came to take our pictures she was Swaledale Festival Marsett Methodist Chapel from the paper. The big yellow letters were Percussion Project Every week for more than 50 years Elaine Bainbridge Children Win at Harrogate going to be displayed on the green; the let- and Tom Ewbank have wheeled water in a ters had sheep, jumpers and goats on them. The Swaledale Festival Percussion Project milk churn from their farm cottage to Lots of cyclist stopped to look and see what has just won one of the Prime Minister’s Marsett Methodist chapel, but when, on was happening. They looked really good Big Society Awards for 2014. The pro- Sunday June 22nd, the congregation cele- (the letters, not the cyclists!). ject was devised by Malcolm Creese, Artis- brated 200 years of Methodist worship Eilish Grant and Mollie Clarkson tic Director of the Swaledale Festival, and involved woodworkers at Gayle Mill, led the milk churn was left in the barn. by Michael Thomson and supported by Following a £25,000 refurbishment of the Larry Ward, Neil Blunt, Maureen Prince building the chapel now has running water, Are you aged 14 – 25 and Janet Thomson, creating a range of a washroom with disabled access and flush and looking for a volunteering opportunity wooden percussion instruments for 100 toilet, a new kitchen, damp-proofed and this summer? children from five Richmondshire primary newly-plastered walls and a flagstone path North Yorkshire Libraries are looking for schools: Arkengarthdale, Gunnerside, Le to the new extension. enthusiastic young people to get involved The bulk of the funding came from the At the recent Harrogate Flower Show chil- Cateau, Reeth and Wavell. All the children in Mythical Maze, this year’s reading chal- North Yorkshire Dales Methodist circuit, dren from Bainbridge Primary School de- attended workshops at Gayle Mill where lenge. Every year thousands of young peo- with a grant from the Darlington District, cided to put all the gardening skills they they learnt about local heritage, helped to ple flock to the library to take part in this and another from the Council for the Pro- have learned over the last few years to good assemble some of the instruments and were national scheme and we need help! tection of Rural England. The congregation use and enter the pocket garden category. introduced to making music through per- The Summer Reading Challenge is one of itself has contributed a sum far in excess of With a little help from the Yorkshire Dales cussion. They then took part in art work- North Yorkshire’s success stories - more what the local circuit expected. Millennium Trust and garden designer shops at their schools, given by local artists than 10,000 will participate this year. Jane Sowerby, a regular worshipper with Chris Myers they designed and created Jill Eagle and Margaret Murphy, in which You will be involved with registering husband, Andrew, and 14-year-old twins, their own wildlife garden, using plants cho- they decorated and personalised their in- children onto the challenge, assisting them Thomas and George, welcomes the sen by themselves. These included wild struments. to choose books, encouraging the children improvements. Thomas has cerebral palsy spring flowers such as Bluebells, Lily of Local music teacher Rosi Keatinge with to talk about the books they have read and and getting his wheelchair into the building the Valley, Cowslips and the insect eating Gary Hammond and Sam Pirt from The helping with activity events within the li- was becoming impossible. “Thomas loves Lords and Ladies! Hut People then gave music workshops in brary. chapel. The singing and the company are a The BBC got wind of these ambitious which the children learnt to play music If you enjoy working with children and real joy to him and the new facilities mean plans and sent a film crew along to chart specially composed for them by Gary and would like to play a part in encouraging other people with similar challenges will the progress of the garden from early de- Sam. The five-month project ended in them to read and have fun over the school have access, too, so it’s a blessing all signs, to planting up seeds and bulbs and March 2014 with all the children perform- holidays, we’d love to hear from you. round,” says Jane. then to the actual day of judgement itself, at ing at a sell-out concert at the Influence To apply or to find out more, go to: Methodist minister, the Rev Janet Park, the show. Church in Richmond with the professional www.vinspired.com or pop into your local applauds the congregation’s commitment. We are very proud to say that we were Samba band Forro Porro. It was a colourful library. Please apply by 30th June. “The chapel pays its own way and they awarded a certificate of merit by the judges and joyous culmination of the project, each For more information on Mythical Maze, have a vision of the future. They are gener- and had the documentary of our progress child playing the brightly decorated instru- visit the reading challenge web-site: ous and welcoming and make the chapel shown on Look North. The children were ments that they had helped to make. www.summerreadingchallenge.org.uk available for everyone” she says. tremendously proud of their success and J.W.T. The present building celebrated its cen- the garden was transported back to school tenary back in 1997. The original one, now and replanted in the school wildlife area Coffee at Hardraw a private house and up for sale, was built in where it will flower every year as a re- Hardraw Church Flower Festival To celebrate my 80th birthday I will be 1814. minder of the day we joined the likes of holding a coffee morning and bring-and- Titchmarsh, Don and Swift as winners at During the week commencing July 1st, to buy bake sale in aid of Hardraw church. Harrogate. D a v i d celebrate the Tour de France ‘Grand Dé- Please come to the Shepherd’s Dwelling, Audrey Thornborough Moore part’. All are invited to an evening of wine Hardraw, from 10.00am to noon on would like to say a huge thank you to her and nibbles, with organ music, in the Wednesday July 16th, family, friends and neighbours for all the Letters on the Green Madness church on Tuesday July 1st from 6.00pm No presents please, but donations to lovely cards, flowers and gifts she received On Wednesday 18th of June children in to 7.00pm Hardraw Church would be most welcome. following her recent stay in hospital. years 4,5,6 walked down to the green with Come and view the flowers, take some Sue Foster letters designed by y6. The message spelt refreshment and celebrate this momentous BAINBRIDGE WELCOMES TDF 2014 event.

20 20 Bainbridge School News a lady came to take our pictures she was Swaledale Festival Marsett Methodist Chapel from the paper. The big yellow letters were Percussion Project Every week for more than 50 years Elaine Bainbridge Children Win at Harrogate going to be displayed on the green; the let- and Tom Ewbank have wheeled water in a ters had sheep, jumpers and goats on them. The Swaledale Festival Percussion Project milk churn from their farm cottage to Lots of cyclist stopped to look and see what has just won one of the Prime Minister’s Marsett Methodist chapel, but when, on was happening. They looked really good Big Society Awards for 2014. The pro- Sunday June 22nd, the congregation cele- (the letters, not the cyclists!). ject was devised by Malcolm Creese, Artis- brated 200 years of Methodist worship Eilish Grant and Mollie Clarkson tic Director of the Swaledale Festival, and involved woodworkers at Gayle Mill, led the milk churn was left in the barn. by Michael Thomson and supported by Following a £25,000 refurbishment of the Larry Ward, Neil Blunt, Maureen Prince building the chapel now has running water, Are you aged 14 – 25 and Janet Thomson, creating a range of a washroom with disabled access and flush and looking for a volunteering opportunity wooden percussion instruments for 100 toilet, a new kitchen, damp-proofed and this summer? children from five Richmondshire primary newly-plastered walls and a flagstone path North Yorkshire Libraries are looking for schools: Arkengarthdale, Gunnerside, Le to the new extension. enthusiastic young people to get involved The bulk of the funding came from the At the recent Harrogate Flower Show chil- Cateau, Reeth and Wavell. All the children in Mythical Maze, this year’s reading chal- North Yorkshire Dales Methodist circuit, dren from Bainbridge Primary School de- attended workshops at Gayle Mill where lenge. Every year thousands of young peo- with a grant from the Darlington District, cided to put all the gardening skills they they learnt about local heritage, helped to ple flock to the library to take part in this and another from the Council for the Pro- have learned over the last few years to good assemble some of the instruments and were national scheme and we need help! tection of Rural England. The congregation use and enter the pocket garden category. introduced to making music through per- The Summer Reading Challenge is one of itself has contributed a sum far in excess of With a little help from the Yorkshire Dales cussion. They then took part in art work- North Yorkshire’s success stories - more what the local circuit expected. Millennium Trust and garden designer shops at their schools, given by local artists than 10,000 will participate this year. Jane Sowerby, a regular worshipper with Chris Myers they designed and created Jill Eagle and Margaret Murphy, in which You will be involved with registering husband, Andrew, and 14-year-old twins, their own wildlife garden, using plants cho- they decorated and personalised their in- children onto the challenge, assisting them Thomas and George, welcomes the sen by themselves. These included wild struments. to choose books, encouraging the children improvements. Thomas has cerebral palsy spring flowers such as Bluebells, Lily of Local music teacher Rosi Keatinge with to talk about the books they have read and and getting his wheelchair into the building the Valley, Cowslips and the insect eating Gary Hammond and Sam Pirt from The helping with activity events within the li- was becoming impossible. “Thomas loves Lords and Ladies! Hut People then gave music workshops in brary. chapel. The singing and the company are a The BBC got wind of these ambitious which the children learnt to play music If you enjoy working with children and real joy to him and the new facilities mean plans and sent a film crew along to chart specially composed for them by Gary and would like to play a part in encouraging other people with similar challenges will the progress of the garden from early de- Sam. The five-month project ended in them to read and have fun over the school have access, too, so it’s a blessing all signs, to planting up seeds and bulbs and March 2014 with all the children perform- holidays, we’d love to hear from you. round,” says Jane. then to the actual day of judgement itself, at ing at a sell-out concert at the Influence To apply or to find out more, go to: Methodist minister, the Rev Janet Park, the show. Church in Richmond with the professional www.vinspired.com or pop into your local applauds the congregation’s commitment. We are very proud to say that we were Samba band Forro Porro. It was a colourful library. Please apply by 30th June. “The chapel pays its own way and they awarded a certificate of merit by the judges and joyous culmination of the project, each For more information on Mythical Maze, have a vision of the future. They are gener- and had the documentary of our progress child playing the brightly decorated instru- visit the reading challenge web-site: ous and welcoming and make the chapel shown on Look North. The children were ments that they had helped to make. www.summerreadingchallenge.org.uk available for everyone” she says. tremendously proud of their success and J.W.T. The present building celebrated its cen- the garden was transported back to school tenary back in 1997. The original one, now and replanted in the school wildlife area Coffee at Hardraw a private house and up for sale, was built in where it will flower every year as a re- Hardraw Church Flower Festival To celebrate my 80th birthday I will be 1814. minder of the day we joined the likes of holding a coffee morning and bring-and- Titchmarsh, Don and Swift as winners at During the week commencing July 1st, to buy bake sale in aid of Hardraw church. Harrogate. D a v i d celebrate the Tour de France ‘Grand Dé- Please come to the Shepherd’s Dwelling, Audrey Thornborough Moore part’. All are invited to an evening of wine Hardraw, from 10.00am to noon on would like to say a huge thank you to her and nibbles, with organ music, in the Wednesday July 16th, family, friends and neighbours for all the Letters on the Green Madness church on Tuesday July 1st from 6.00pm No presents please, but donations to lovely cards, flowers and gifts she received On Wednesday 18th of June children in to 7.00pm Hardraw Church would be most welcome. following her recent stay in hospital. years 4,5,6 walked down to the green with Come and view the flowers, take some Sue Foster letters designed by y6. The message spelt refreshment and celebrate this momentous BAINBRIDGE WELCOMES TDF 2014 event.

21 21 Best Foot Forward not like this link to the Pennine Bridleway with nothing better to do add a further cairn On Friday June owing to the newly-made deep cross- to ‘scare off the Scottish raiders’ (it is 13th at Rook- We did it my way! Ways: there are so channels difficult to see). At the top we said!) hurst in Gayle , many; Pennine, Dales, South Downs, turned left to the summit of Great Sir Joe and Lady Cleveland, Cumbria, Cambrian and Coast Knoutberry, probably the best view-point Ann Pilling wel- to Coast path. They all have their for the whole of Richmondshire, and it has comed guests to challenges and are fine if you’re content to a rough seat-shelter looking northeast. an evening of follow the guide book. To say the high level route down towards poetry to launch But why not create Your Way? This is a Appersett is easy would be a down-right ‘Say Cheese’, a splendid thing to do in the depths of winter lie! It is about six miles, and it’s rough. It is book of nearly when you are more likely to have hills in advisable to keep to the fences or walls 100 happy poems the head than under the feet. So it was that (except where the fence goes straight into ‘to give you com- I dreamt of a Horseshoe Walk. An anti- Widdale Great Tarn!). From there it is a fort, joy and con- clockwise traverse from Chapel le Dale via twisting route to Little Scar Moss and the solation’ collected and introduced by Dales the Dales, the North Pennines, the Vale of best way then is to follow the straight wall It is maybe as well that this day’s walk is poet Ann. Eden and the Lakes to arrive at Scafell Pike along the top of Widdale Fell scar. Various only about 11 miles because from the Rigg The book is a mixture of poems by dead and on to the coast — a somewhat walls can then be followed to join, at due north although there is a steady and living poets, and to make them really roundabout way to do Scafell Pike. length, the bridleway from near Tarney descent across Winton Fell, there is no ‘come to life’ several contributors from Transferring the idea on to the maps Fors to Appersett. obvious track. We emerged to a network of local poetry groups read their own poems. depicted a horseshoe that no decent horse Hawes to Nateby We took the most direct footpaths around 840096 and towards the There is a strong northern presence in the would countenance! A Wobbly Horseshoe way via Hardraw and the long footpath river Belah where there was a splendid collection— the landscape, sheep and Walk. from just beyond Bluebell Hill along the trestle viaduct on the Co. Durham to cheese— hence the ‘matured in Wensley- I thought you might like a sketch of the right hand side of Cotterdale, northwest Kirkby Stephen railway. If ever there was a dale’. first few days with the high and low points. into the village. structure that should have been retained, It’s a real joy to read! Here’s a taste: Chapel le Dale to Hawes. We climbed Turning west, we climbed up through the this is it. Onwards and northwards along ‘Famous’ poems: Cargoes, (John Mase- Whernside via Bruntscar (the way the plantation, now felled, to join the famous footpaths with annoyingly blocked stiles field) ‘Quinquireme of Ninevah’, remem- Three-peakers come down) and then set our High Road of Lady Anne Clifford fame (this is a lost area as far as walkers are ber it from school– with the dirty British sights north-east via becks and shooting past High Dike, High Way and High Hall concerned) via South Stainmore to the coaster with the salt-caked smoke stack?; butts down towards the old marble works at to the famous Hell Gill Bridge. If you want Punch Bowl pub at North Stainmore on a Morning has broken, Jabberwocky and Stone House and Arten Gill, whose viaduct to pick the best bilberries this is the place; bit of the old A66 now bypassed. Not smart The Lark in the Clear Air, rub shoulders was a good marker, until it disappeared as there is a fenced area where the sheep can’t on the outside; OK inside. with ‘Welcome Bonny Brid’, Wensleydale we dropped further down. The crossing of get them. You must be there at the right Mickle Fell had dominated the front Counting Rhyme’ and modern poems from the young river Dee is easy if you manage time! Last year, about the same place, a horizon this day; that’s the highest peak in the area like ‘Delicious Babies’ or to arrive at the only nearby footbridge; cuckoo’s shouting across the dale old Yorkshire and in a ‘danger area’ but ‘Engine’. there is a ford, and in dry weather there accompanied me most of the morning. too good to miss. Tell you about it next You will so enjoy it; it is sold on behalf won’t be any water at all! Not for us the direct route into time: North Stainmore to Langdon Beck in of St Margaret’s Church restoration and Mallerstang. We turned up to Hugh Seat, Teesdale. available at the Newsagent’s in Hawes. then on, and on along the National Park A.S.W. A.S.W boundary to High Seat and High Pike; long but fairly level. Towards the end of the walk it was maybe unwise to strike off Annie Taylor “Two Hundred Quid north west, leaving any semblance of a of Nannup, Western Australia, formerly of Would be Nice!” track and making for Great Bell and then South View, Gayle, Hawes, died peacefully That’s what Neil McNair at Low Mill, the footpath to Nateby (for B and B). We on June 10th aged 93 years. Bainbridge, thought he might make for the could have made for the B-road, but who Annie emigrated to Australia five years Air Ambulance when he designed his yel- wants over three miles of it? ago to live with her daughter and family. low bikes and made a few out of plywood. Nateby to North Stainmore Here, the She enjoyed her remaining years there with He’s now made about 350 and raised Horseshoe takes a very distinct wobble to the family and new friends, joining in £2,800. Magnificent! To contribute: The viaduct is a good place for lunch make, via Hartley Fell, for Nine Standards many community activities and attending justgiving .com/neilsyellowbikes before the climb up the gill. (Cyclists do Rigg. There are sometimes ten, as walkers the local church. .

22 22 Best Foot Forward not like this link to the Pennine Bridleway with nothing better to do add a further cairn On Friday June owing to the newly-made deep cross- to ‘scare off the Scottish raiders’ (it is 13th at Rook- We did it my way! Ways: there are so channels difficult to see). At the top we said!) hurst in Gayle , many; Pennine, Dales, South Downs, turned left to the summit of Great Sir Joe and Lady Cleveland, Cumbria, Cambrian and Coast Knoutberry, probably the best view-point Ann Pilling wel- to Coast path. They all have their for the whole of Richmondshire, and it has comed guests to challenges and are fine if you’re content to a rough seat-shelter looking northeast. an evening of follow the guide book. To say the high level route down towards poetry to launch But why not create Your Way? This is a Appersett is easy would be a down-right ‘Say Cheese’, a splendid thing to do in the depths of winter lie! It is about six miles, and it’s rough. It is book of nearly when you are more likely to have hills in advisable to keep to the fences or walls 100 happy poems the head than under the feet. So it was that (except where the fence goes straight into ‘to give you com- I dreamt of a Horseshoe Walk. An anti- Widdale Great Tarn!). From there it is a fort, joy and con- clockwise traverse from Chapel le Dale via twisting route to Little Scar Moss and the solation’ collected and introduced by Dales the Dales, the North Pennines, the Vale of best way then is to follow the straight wall It is maybe as well that this day’s walk is poet Ann. Eden and the Lakes to arrive at Scafell Pike along the top of Widdale Fell scar. Various only about 11 miles because from the Rigg The book is a mixture of poems by dead and on to the coast — a somewhat walls can then be followed to join, at due north although there is a steady and living poets, and to make them really roundabout way to do Scafell Pike. length, the bridleway from near Tarney descent across Winton Fell, there is no ‘come to life’ several contributors from Transferring the idea on to the maps Fors to Appersett. obvious track. We emerged to a network of local poetry groups read their own poems. depicted a horseshoe that no decent horse Hawes to Nateby We took the most direct footpaths around 840096 and towards the There is a strong northern presence in the would countenance! A Wobbly Horseshoe way via Hardraw and the long footpath river Belah where there was a splendid collection— the landscape, sheep and Walk. from just beyond Bluebell Hill along the trestle viaduct on the Co. Durham to cheese— hence the ‘matured in Wensley- I thought you might like a sketch of the right hand side of Cotterdale, northwest Kirkby Stephen railway. If ever there was a dale’. first few days with the high and low points. into the village. structure that should have been retained, It’s a real joy to read! Here’s a taste: Chapel le Dale to Hawes. We climbed Turning west, we climbed up through the this is it. Onwards and northwards along ‘Famous’ poems: Cargoes, (John Mase- Whernside via Bruntscar (the way the plantation, now felled, to join the famous footpaths with annoyingly blocked stiles field) ‘Quinquireme of Ninevah’, remem- Three-peakers come down) and then set our High Road of Lady Anne Clifford fame (this is a lost area as far as walkers are ber it from school– with the dirty British sights north-east via becks and shooting past High Dike, High Way and High Hall concerned) via South Stainmore to the coaster with the salt-caked smoke stack?; butts down towards the old marble works at to the famous Hell Gill Bridge. If you want Punch Bowl pub at North Stainmore on a Morning has broken, Jabberwocky and Stone House and Arten Gill, whose viaduct to pick the best bilberries this is the place; bit of the old A66 now bypassed. Not smart The Lark in the Clear Air, rub shoulders was a good marker, until it disappeared as there is a fenced area where the sheep can’t on the outside; OK inside. with ‘Welcome Bonny Brid’, Wensleydale we dropped further down. The crossing of get them. You must be there at the right Mickle Fell had dominated the front Counting Rhyme’ and modern poems from the young river Dee is easy if you manage time! Last year, about the same place, a horizon this day; that’s the highest peak in the area like ‘Delicious Babies’ or to arrive at the only nearby footbridge; cuckoo’s shouting across the dale old Yorkshire and in a ‘danger area’ but ‘Engine’. there is a ford, and in dry weather there accompanied me most of the morning. too good to miss. Tell you about it next You will so enjoy it; it is sold on behalf won’t be any water at all! Not for us the direct route into time: North Stainmore to Langdon Beck in of St Margaret’s Church restoration and Mallerstang. We turned up to Hugh Seat, Teesdale. available at the Newsagent’s in Hawes. then on, and on along the National Park A.S.W. A.S.W boundary to High Seat and High Pike; long but fairly level. Towards the end of the walk it was maybe unwise to strike off Annie Taylor “Two Hundred Quid north west, leaving any semblance of a of Nannup, Western Australia, formerly of Would be Nice!” track and making for Great Bell and then South View, Gayle, Hawes, died peacefully That’s what Neil McNair at Low Mill, the footpath to Nateby (for B and B). We on June 10th aged 93 years. Bainbridge, thought he might make for the could have made for the B-road, but who Annie emigrated to Australia five years Air Ambulance when he designed his yel- wants over three miles of it? ago to live with her daughter and family. low bikes and made a few out of plywood. Nateby to North Stainmore Here, the She enjoyed her remaining years there with He’s now made about 350 and raised Horseshoe takes a very distinct wobble to the family and new friends, joining in £2,800. Magnificent! To contribute: The viaduct is a good place for lunch make, via Hartley Fell, for Nine Standards many community activities and attending justgiving .com/neilsyellowbikes before the climb up the gill. (Cyclists do Rigg. There are sometimes ten, as walkers the local church. .

23 23 Consultation Begins identified that are of particular importance From Mole-catching to have always had red trucks. on Planning Documents to local communities or which are key to Countrywide Haulage Ken and Margaret’s son Peter took village character, with the intention of pro- over the running of the company in 1999 Consultation has begun on two documents tecting them from development that would that will guide the way planning decisions There have been reported sightings of when it became W. Metcalfe and Sons Ltd. harm their contribution. Since Foot and Mouth year no livestock has are made in the National Park in the future. "There has been a lot of recent discussion W.Metcalfe and Sons Ltd all over the Brit- The first is a draft Local Plan that will ish Isles for years, and only now have we been carried but business has flourished; a about the future of the thousands of tradi- yard near Catterick for five years now, 17 help shape development decisions in the tional barns in the National Park. The Au- thought to feature the Appersett-based Yorkshire Dales between 2015 and 2030. It haulage company. trucks and 45 trailers. Despite the trucks thority accepts that conversion of barns to proudly displaying Hawes only a couple of is taking a fresh look at every aspect of new uses plays an important part in their These Metcalfes are as hefted in local planning policy except housing - Appersett as the nearby sheep are on the drivers are local, 22 full, part-time and conservation. The Local Plan is, therefore, night and day which was only recently reviewed by the consulting on a policy that would release fells! William, Mowdy Bill (mowdy’s a Yorkshire Dales Housing Development mole round here) caught rabbits and from Richmond, roadside barns for residential or intensive Teesside and Car- Plan 2012 - 2025. new business uses." mowdies as his first job but then in 1927 Over the last 15 months the National turned his hand to coal delivering, picking lisle. The draft Local Plan and the draft Plan- The office, in Park Authority has been consulting about ning Design Guide can be viewed on the up the coal in Hawes Station Yard to take the planning issues and policy options that around very locally. He was very proud the annex to the Authority website at newish house just a new Local Plan should tackle. www.yorkshiredales.org.uk and will be soon after to get a second wagon— an This consultation has identified the prior- Albion. east of Appersett emailed to an extensive list of consultees. employs two full- and two part-timers. ity planning issues as creating high-quality Consultation responses can be made via These early memories were related to me employment, developing tourism, holding with great enthusiasm in Rose Cottage, ‘They are very keen to operate a keenly email [email protected] or competitive service and the office is a hive on to local services, supporting land man- in writing to Planning Policy, Yorkshire next door to where William had lived, by agement, quarrying and re-using barns. son Ken and his wife Margaret (married in of activity. Dales National Park Authority, Yoredale, As with father and grandfather, Peter Peter Stockton, the Authority's Head of Bainbridge, Leyburn, DL8 3EL. 1969). As business grew with three wagons Sustainable Development, said: "The draft they turned increasingly to livestock, to-ing won’t be budged from Appersett; likes organising the trucks, his partner drives, Local Plan proposes an agenda of growth to and fro-ing from Hawes Auction Mart with combat the risk of economic and popula- Letter and Catterick would be more convenient. Dear Newsletter the other son, Nathan driving for 40 years tion decline. He’s another hefted Metcalfe, and what’s Looking for a word to describe Hawes, until his death. (His widow, a very keen "In particular it aims to support young his hobby? Three classic wagons to take to would astonishment, delight or wow be Newsletter reader lives in Hudswell). Ken adults and people of working age to enable shows and display weekends like Kirkby appropriate? I think from a Yorkshire lass who started driving in 1958 continued until them to live in the National Park instead of Stephen’s! 'gobsmacked' would be best to describe a bad accident in the 1990s. He spent 5½ moving away. We aim to do this by allocat- A.S.W. how great the town looks decked out in red months in hospital. ing more brownfield sites for business de- and white. The whole town has rallied to Some years ago, two admirers of Ken velopment and providing more flexibility to celebrate as only Hawes can. rolled up at Hawes Methodist Church for Come and Have Tea support farm and rural estate diversifica- I'm sure I'm not the only one to congratu- his funeral; wrong Metcalfe! Well there are in the Garden tion. late all the people who have made it possi- a lot! "Another objective is to encourage more With Margaret and Tony Playfoot ble from committees to businesses and Ken and Nathan went into partnership in visitors to stay over night in the National At River View, Lea Yeat, Cowgill, Dent. householders. Often time and effort is hid- 1968 and William retired in 1969. For Park by expanding camping and temporary Saturday August 2nd, 11.00am to den but I would like to mention one group those who like to put the locals into per- visitor accommodation. 4.00pm and one person in particular for the visual spective, William’s third child is Joan Fox "In addition, the draft Local Plan supports a Proceeds in aid of Marie Curie, effect round town. Ladies have worked who lives on the Hill in Hawes. more considered approach to the develop- Dent First Responders and Air Ambulance very hard with the bunting and Richard By the 1960s there were six wagons and ment of indoor visitor facilities that are not Noble has worked very hard to organise the work branched out: livestock, hay, directly related to the National Park's spe- and plant the baskets, troughs and made straw and ‘one went general’ picking up cial qualities but are, nevertheless, impor- Chairs flowers available. valuable business on a regular long run tant to a more rounded visitor enjoyment of Once again thank you to all the quiet from Teesside to Merseyside and back, About 20 sturdy grey plastic stacking the area. groups and workers. What a great place to taking Castrol Engine oil from Ellesmere chairs with tubular steel legs are available "In discussion with parish councils, the live! Port refinery to ICI Teesside, ten hours from the Hawes Methodist rooms. They are document is also reviewing local green Ann Wood driving there and back but sleeping at in good condition and would suit one of the space around settlements. Areas have been home; Appersett’s well placed, roughly village halls in our area. 667785 for further Gobsmacked of Hawes mid-way. Incidentally, from then they details.

24 24 Consultation Begins identified that are of particular importance From Mole-catching to have always had red trucks. on Planning Documents to local communities or which are key to Countrywide Haulage Ken and Margaret’s son Peter took village character, with the intention of pro- over the running of the company in 1999 Consultation has begun on two documents tecting them from development that would that will guide the way planning decisions There have been reported sightings of when it became W. Metcalfe and Sons Ltd. harm their contribution. Since Foot and Mouth year no livestock has are made in the National Park in the future. "There has been a lot of recent discussion W.Metcalfe and Sons Ltd all over the Brit- The first is a draft Local Plan that will ish Isles for years, and only now have we been carried but business has flourished; a about the future of the thousands of tradi- yard near Catterick for five years now, 17 help shape development decisions in the tional barns in the National Park. The Au- thought to feature the Appersett-based Yorkshire Dales between 2015 and 2030. It haulage company. trucks and 45 trailers. Despite the trucks thority accepts that conversion of barns to proudly displaying Hawes only a couple of is taking a fresh look at every aspect of new uses plays an important part in their These Metcalfes are as hefted in local planning policy except housing - Appersett as the nearby sheep are on the drivers are local, 22 full, part-time and conservation. The Local Plan is, therefore, night and day which was only recently reviewed by the consulting on a policy that would release fells! William, Mowdy Bill (mowdy’s a Yorkshire Dales Housing Development mole round here) caught rabbits and from Richmond, roadside barns for residential or intensive Teesside and Car- Plan 2012 - 2025. new business uses." mowdies as his first job but then in 1927 Over the last 15 months the National turned his hand to coal delivering, picking lisle. The draft Local Plan and the draft Plan- The office, in Park Authority has been consulting about ning Design Guide can be viewed on the up the coal in Hawes Station Yard to take the planning issues and policy options that around very locally. He was very proud the annex to the Authority website at newish house just a new Local Plan should tackle. www.yorkshiredales.org.uk and will be soon after to get a second wagon— an This consultation has identified the prior- Albion. east of Appersett emailed to an extensive list of consultees. employs two full- and two part-timers. ity planning issues as creating high-quality Consultation responses can be made via These early memories were related to me employment, developing tourism, holding with great enthusiasm in Rose Cottage, ‘They are very keen to operate a keenly email [email protected] or competitive service and the office is a hive on to local services, supporting land man- in writing to Planning Policy, Yorkshire next door to where William had lived, by agement, quarrying and re-using barns. son Ken and his wife Margaret (married in of activity. Dales National Park Authority, Yoredale, As with father and grandfather, Peter Peter Stockton, the Authority's Head of Bainbridge, Leyburn, DL8 3EL. 1969). As business grew with three wagons Sustainable Development, said: "The draft they turned increasingly to livestock, to-ing won’t be budged from Appersett; likes organising the trucks, his partner drives, Local Plan proposes an agenda of growth to and fro-ing from Hawes Auction Mart with combat the risk of economic and popula- Letter and Catterick would be more convenient. Dear Newsletter the other son, Nathan driving for 40 years tion decline. He’s another hefted Metcalfe, and what’s Looking for a word to describe Hawes, until his death. (His widow, a very keen "In particular it aims to support young his hobby? Three classic wagons to take to would astonishment, delight or wow be Newsletter reader lives in Hudswell). Ken adults and people of working age to enable shows and display weekends like Kirkby appropriate? I think from a Yorkshire lass who started driving in 1958 continued until them to live in the National Park instead of Stephen’s! 'gobsmacked' would be best to describe a bad accident in the 1990s. He spent 5½ moving away. We aim to do this by allocat- A.S.W. how great the town looks decked out in red months in hospital. ing more brownfield sites for business de- and white. The whole town has rallied to Some years ago, two admirers of Ken velopment and providing more flexibility to celebrate as only Hawes can. rolled up at Hawes Methodist Church for Come and Have Tea support farm and rural estate diversifica- I'm sure I'm not the only one to congratu- his funeral; wrong Metcalfe! Well there are in the Garden tion. late all the people who have made it possi- a lot! "Another objective is to encourage more With Margaret and Tony Playfoot ble from committees to businesses and Ken and Nathan went into partnership in visitors to stay over night in the National At River View, Lea Yeat, Cowgill, Dent. householders. Often time and effort is hid- 1968 and William retired in 1969. For Park by expanding camping and temporary Saturday August 2nd, 11.00am to den but I would like to mention one group those who like to put the locals into per- visitor accommodation. 4.00pm and one person in particular for the visual spective, William’s third child is Joan Fox "In addition, the draft Local Plan supports a Proceeds in aid of Marie Curie, effect round town. Ladies have worked who lives on the Hill in Hawes. more considered approach to the develop- Dent First Responders and Air Ambulance very hard with the bunting and Richard By the 1960s there were six wagons and ment of indoor visitor facilities that are not Noble has worked very hard to organise the work branched out: livestock, hay, directly related to the National Park's spe- and plant the baskets, troughs and made straw and ‘one went general’ picking up cial qualities but are, nevertheless, impor- Chairs flowers available. valuable business on a regular long run tant to a more rounded visitor enjoyment of Once again thank you to all the quiet from Teesside to Merseyside and back, About 20 sturdy grey plastic stacking the area. groups and workers. What a great place to taking Castrol Engine oil from Ellesmere chairs with tubular steel legs are available "In discussion with parish councils, the live! Port refinery to ICI Teesside, ten hours from the Hawes Methodist rooms. They are document is also reviewing local green Ann Wood driving there and back but sleeping at in good condition and would suit one of the space around settlements. Areas have been home; Appersett’s well placed, roughly village halls in our area. 667785 for further Gobsmacked of Hawes mid-way. Incidentally, from then they details.

25 25 Keeping out of Hospital. A Piece of Village History Dr Kristin Whalley walking in Torridon and other parts of Few people express a desire to stay in hospital Askrigg may be unique in having a series of Scotland. any longer than necessary, so it’s good news hand-made, sometimes hand-written, leather- Optimistic, energetic, hardworking, Clive’s call up for National Service led him that for the last 12 months the NHS in Hamble- bound, village books. The first was produced enthusiastic and talkative. From driving a to join the Colonial Medical Service and Kris- ton and Richmondshire has been running a suc- by the then Askrigg WI in 1965 as part of a steamroller around her father’s gravel works tin travelled with him to do medical work in cessful rapid response health and social care national competition to make a village at the age of eight to being involved in lively Basutoland, now Lesotho. Here their first team who are providing support for suitably scrapbook. It came second nationally but and demanding voluntary work as an child, James, was born. It was here too that assessed patients. Often these are older people given the content, design and artistic quality, octogenarian, the words above aptly describe Kristin’s work for the Gideon Society began. who may have been discharged from hospital or it’s hard to imagine what could have beaten Dr Kristin Whalley of Newbiggin in Returning to Cambridge two years later Clive whose recovery, perhaps after A&E treatment, it. Bishopdale. A lady not good at doing nothing! continued to work in orthopaedics. Andrew may simply be better at home. The care service The next marked the Queen’s silver jubilee Kristin’s family roots are from a Hampshire was born but when he was eighteen months is day and night and is made up of nurses, occu- in 1977. Not so much a scrapbook, more a farming background., although her father was old Kristin faced her first trauma when he was pational therapists, healthcare assistants and photograph album with pictures of just about a chemical engineer and her mother was a seriously ill after a scalding accident. She social care workers. Most patients are referred every resident and their brief biographies. mathematician and physicist. Both parents admits that it was her strong Christian faith by their GPs and the feedback so far from those There was another one in 1990, paid for with were part of Frank Whittle’s team of five which saw her through these days with who have used the service has been positive. a donation from the BBC in recognition of scientists working for RAE Farnborough on Andrew. Their third child, Jane, arrived No doubt visitors benefit too, saving long jour- the village’s contribution to its All Creatures the jet engine. During the war the company shortly after. neys to Northallerton and beyond. If you want Great and Small series, and a fourth to mark moved to Clitheroe, where Kristin and her Kristin and Clive had a year working in to know more about it ring the NHS North the Millennium. All were beautifully brother spent their holidays cycling around the America before returning to England where Yorkshire and Humber Communications Team illustrated with paintings by Janet Rawlins, country lanes and walking with their parents Kristin became a consultant in rheumatology on 0300 303 8394. Terry Kirkbride and Marie Hartley, who in the Lake District. Kristin’s love of the hills in Sussex in 1969. In November 1970 trauma with her friend Joan Ingilby, oversaw their and hillwalking and climbing began there, a struck again when, without warning, she suf- production. Many willing volunteers helped wonderful playground for a young girl who fered a cardiac arrest. No defibrillators in with the writing, photography and research. already enjoyed the outdoor life. With her those days: doctors worked for an hour to Bellerby Open Gardens and parents she met many of the early Everest Scarecrow Festival Now, a new village book is planned, restart her heart. Some loss of memory was climbers and Alpinists such as Murray, inevitable so no further medical exams were “IT'S GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH” marking the 50th anniversary of the original one of 1965. It will paint a picture of the Somerville and Bourdillon. In the early 1950s possible but her determination and faith Sunday 13th July 2014 parish of Askrigg and Low Abbotside over a Kristin’s family established the Brackenclose ensured that she remained in clinical work 11am – 4.00pm 12-month period: work and leisure, schools, Fell and Rock Club hut for climbers and until she retired in 1998. Her third trauma walkers in the Lake District. Kristin herself is Gardening is good for your health 'it's official', health, transport, fashion, homemaking and occurred in 1982 when Clive was killed in a still a member of the Fell and Rock Club after and even gazing at lovely plants and grassy lots more, plus pictures and biographies of road accident. 55 years. lawns can raise the spirits. every resident, reflecting the content of the Kristin maintained her love of the north and Both Kristin and her brother remained at All this, plus music from The Old Glory Jazz subsequent books. A small steering commit- on her retirement rented a house in Redmire. separate boarding schools in the south of Band, plant sales and a craft stall. Refreshments tee has been formed and we now have an Since then she has lived in Newbiggin. She England. Kristin had no problem with exams will be available in the Memorial Hall where outline of the 20-plus chapter headings. Vol- became chairman of the northern area Gideon and had announced at age seven that she there is an outdoor children's play area. unteers are being recruited to take one or Society and travelled thousands of miles intended to be a brain surgeon. It was no Bellerby, a village of becks and bridges dat- more of the chapters - health and wellbeing, recruiting new members. She is also chairman surprise therefore that she pursued a career in ing back to before the Norman Conquest, is 1.5 education, transport and so on - to work on of the Wensleydale branch of the Campaign to medicine at Bart’s teaching hospital. It was miles north of Leyburn on the A6108 road to with fellow recruits. The book will be based Protect Rural England. Her love of music has while at Bart’s that she met Clive Whalley, a Richmond. on the original WI book of 1965, and will be continued throughout her life and she enjoys fellow medical student at Cambridge. Clive Admission is £3.50 each, for adults, children produced next year to mark the 50th anniver- playing the flute with the “Wensleydale Phil- and his friends were Christian and it was under 16 go free and there is free off-road park- sary of that remarkable piece of work. harmonic Orchestra”. through them that Kristin developed her ing. Proceeds will be shared between local Betsy Everett Kristin’s outlook on life has always been strong personal relationship with God, which good cause positive. She firmly believes that God has has directed and supported her in life ever directed her life and she has had the since. Three months after qualifying in the St. Andrew’s Church, Aysgarth satisfaction of overcoming her problems and Tuesday 8th July 2014 at 7.30pm medical profession Clive and Kristin were has faced adversity with faith and courage. Handy Hints! married. For their first job, as junior house Use vertical strokes when washing windows Institution and Induction Last year she took on the role of of the Rev. Lynn Purvis-Lee as Vicar of the doctors, they arrived at Bridge of Earn churchwarden in Redmire - not an easy task at outside and horizontal inside: then you can tell Hospital in Scotland, where Kristin furthered which side has the streaks. Penhill Benefice by James Bell, Bishop of the age of eighty but Dr Kristin Whalley is “a Knaresborough, followed by light her studies in orthopaedic surgery and in lady not good at doing nothing!” Wrap celery in aluminium foil when putting in precious time off continued climbing and the fridge and it will keep for weeks refreshments. N.P. and Liz Piper

26 26 Keeping out of Hospital. A Piece of Village History Dr Kristin Whalley walking in Torridon and other parts of Few people express a desire to stay in hospital Askrigg may be unique in having a series of Scotland. any longer than necessary, so it’s good news hand-made, sometimes hand-written, leather- Optimistic, energetic, hardworking, Clive’s call up for National Service led him that for the last 12 months the NHS in Hamble- bound, village books. The first was produced enthusiastic and talkative. From driving a to join the Colonial Medical Service and Kris- ton and Richmondshire has been running a suc- by the then Askrigg WI in 1965 as part of a steamroller around her father’s gravel works tin travelled with him to do medical work in cessful rapid response health and social care national competition to make a village at the age of eight to being involved in lively Basutoland, now Lesotho. Here their first team who are providing support for suitably scrapbook. It came second nationally but and demanding voluntary work as an child, James, was born. It was here too that assessed patients. Often these are older people given the content, design and artistic quality, octogenarian, the words above aptly describe Kristin’s work for the Gideon Society began. who may have been discharged from hospital or it’s hard to imagine what could have beaten Dr Kristin Whalley of Newbiggin in Returning to Cambridge two years later Clive whose recovery, perhaps after A&E treatment, it. Bishopdale. A lady not good at doing nothing! continued to work in orthopaedics. Andrew may simply be better at home. The care service The next marked the Queen’s silver jubilee Kristin’s family roots are from a Hampshire was born but when he was eighteen months is day and night and is made up of nurses, occu- in 1977. Not so much a scrapbook, more a farming background., although her father was old Kristin faced her first trauma when he was pational therapists, healthcare assistants and photograph album with pictures of just about a chemical engineer and her mother was a seriously ill after a scalding accident. She social care workers. Most patients are referred every resident and their brief biographies. mathematician and physicist. Both parents admits that it was her strong Christian faith by their GPs and the feedback so far from those There was another one in 1990, paid for with were part of Frank Whittle’s team of five which saw her through these days with who have used the service has been positive. a donation from the BBC in recognition of scientists working for RAE Farnborough on Andrew. Their third child, Jane, arrived No doubt visitors benefit too, saving long jour- the village’s contribution to its All Creatures the jet engine. During the war the company shortly after. neys to Northallerton and beyond. If you want Great and Small series, and a fourth to mark moved to Clitheroe, where Kristin and her Kristin and Clive had a year working in to know more about it ring the NHS North the Millennium. All were beautifully brother spent their holidays cycling around the America before returning to England where Yorkshire and Humber Communications Team illustrated with paintings by Janet Rawlins, country lanes and walking with their parents Kristin became a consultant in rheumatology on 0300 303 8394. Terry Kirkbride and Marie Hartley, who in the Lake District. Kristin’s love of the hills in Sussex in 1969. In November 1970 trauma with her friend Joan Ingilby, oversaw their and hillwalking and climbing began there, a struck again when, without warning, she suf- production. Many willing volunteers helped wonderful playground for a young girl who fered a cardiac arrest. No defibrillators in with the writing, photography and research. already enjoyed the outdoor life. With her those days: doctors worked for an hour to Bellerby Open Gardens and parents she met many of the early Everest Scarecrow Festival Now, a new village book is planned, restart her heart. Some loss of memory was climbers and Alpinists such as Murray, inevitable so no further medical exams were “IT'S GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH” marking the 50th anniversary of the original one of 1965. It will paint a picture of the Somerville and Bourdillon. In the early 1950s possible but her determination and faith Sunday 13th July 2014 parish of Askrigg and Low Abbotside over a Kristin’s family established the Brackenclose ensured that she remained in clinical work 11am – 4.00pm 12-month period: work and leisure, schools, Fell and Rock Club hut for climbers and until she retired in 1998. Her third trauma walkers in the Lake District. Kristin herself is Gardening is good for your health 'it's official', health, transport, fashion, homemaking and occurred in 1982 when Clive was killed in a still a member of the Fell and Rock Club after and even gazing at lovely plants and grassy lots more, plus pictures and biographies of road accident. 55 years. lawns can raise the spirits. every resident, reflecting the content of the Kristin maintained her love of the north and Both Kristin and her brother remained at All this, plus music from The Old Glory Jazz subsequent books. A small steering commit- on her retirement rented a house in Redmire. separate boarding schools in the south of Band, plant sales and a craft stall. Refreshments tee has been formed and we now have an Since then she has lived in Newbiggin. She England. Kristin had no problem with exams will be available in the Memorial Hall where outline of the 20-plus chapter headings. Vol- became chairman of the northern area Gideon and had announced at age seven that she there is an outdoor children's play area. unteers are being recruited to take one or Society and travelled thousands of miles intended to be a brain surgeon. It was no Bellerby, a village of becks and bridges dat- more of the chapters - health and wellbeing, recruiting new members. She is also chairman surprise therefore that she pursued a career in ing back to before the Norman Conquest, is 1.5 education, transport and so on - to work on of the Wensleydale branch of the Campaign to medicine at Bart’s teaching hospital. It was miles north of Leyburn on the A6108 road to with fellow recruits. The book will be based Protect Rural England. Her love of music has while at Bart’s that she met Clive Whalley, a Richmond. on the original WI book of 1965, and will be continued throughout her life and she enjoys fellow medical student at Cambridge. Clive Admission is £3.50 each, for adults, children produced next year to mark the 50th anniver- playing the flute with the “Wensleydale Phil- and his friends were Christian and it was under 16 go free and there is free off-road park- sary of that remarkable piece of work. harmonic Orchestra”. through them that Kristin developed her ing. Proceeds will be shared between local Betsy Everett Kristin’s outlook on life has always been strong personal relationship with God, which good cause positive. She firmly believes that God has has directed and supported her in life ever directed her life and she has had the since. Three months after qualifying in the St. Andrew’s Church, Aysgarth satisfaction of overcoming her problems and Tuesday 8th July 2014 at 7.30pm medical profession Clive and Kristin were has faced adversity with faith and courage. Handy Hints! married. For their first job, as junior house Use vertical strokes when washing windows Institution and Induction Last year she took on the role of of the Rev. Lynn Purvis-Lee as Vicar of the doctors, they arrived at Bridge of Earn churchwarden in Redmire - not an easy task at outside and horizontal inside: then you can tell Hospital in Scotland, where Kristin furthered which side has the streaks. Penhill Benefice by James Bell, Bishop of the age of eighty but Dr Kristin Whalley is “a Knaresborough, followed by light her studies in orthopaedic surgery and in lady not good at doing nothing!” Wrap celery in aluminium foil when putting in precious time off continued climbing and the fridge and it will keep for weeks refreshments. N.P. and Liz Piper

27 27 Tour de France– More Details The remaining spaces in that car park will be assurances that they will be able to use the race Running for Charity available for business in the town to use on a route if they have to. Mike, Rachel and Stuart Haygarth competed Very soon you will see “event guides” popping first come first serve basis, again please get Volunteers in the City of Manchester 10K on Sunday up at shops and businesses that will give full in touch if you need one for that Saturday. If you wish to be a part of the event on the day 18th May. They ran for Macmillan Cancer details of the activities that are planned over the Mobile phone coverage we are constantly looking for volunteers to Support, a charity very close to them as Mar- weekend, please get in touch if you would like For the TDF event we are aware of at least help with various aspects of organisation on garet, their mother, has recently undergone to have some copies to distribute. one provider (O2) who will be erecting the Friday and Saturday. If you are interested treatment for cancer. The support offered by We have been working hard to host a variety temporary antennae to cope with the please get in touch; see contact details below. Macmillan to the family has been invaluable. of events including our very own bike trail additional demand but depending on actual After the event As others in the race would confess, it was (please see the separate piece about this), other numbers of visitors it is still possible that I’m sure that the day itself will be like no a blisteringly hot day and not ideal to run in events include music to suit every taste, coverage will be patchy. other, and we will all be inconvenienced in temperatures exceeding 25 degrees! If only children’s activities and a number of market Security some way or another but I am certain that we the city had lived up to its reputation and stalls. Security and first aid provision has been put will give the spectators our usual fantastically provided some much needed rain to cool The live music will start at 7.00pm on Friday in place for all of the events planned in the warm Yorkshire welcome and a day to them down! 4th July in the Penny Garth Café and finish town and most of the pubs. Whilst we don’t remember so that they choose to visit the area They just wanted to take this opportunity around 11.00pm. From 9.00am on Saturday 5th expect any particular issues, with the number over the coming years. to thank friends and family for all the kind Hawes town centre will host a number of of people that are expected to arrive there Finally I hope that you will join me in words of encouragement and support, as well market stalls and children’s activities with live still may be an element of “opportunistic” thanking all those who have helped with all as the great many donations that have been music starting again around 6.00pm through to crime so thought should be given to just the preparations, giving up hours or days, to received. midnight. We still have space for a few more double checking that you don’t leave any put on an event that we will all remember for To date, with money already raised and market stalls so if you know anyone who valuables on show and things like charity years to come. Here’s to July 5th! sponsors promised, the total is very near may be interested please let us know. collection tins are adequately secured. If Griff Thomas £2000. THANK YOU! We have just obtained permission from anyone who hasn’t already got provision in HHA TDF Committee Chairman If you wish to donate to this very worthy Natural England to create a temporary bicycle place would like some security please let us [email protected] 01969 666111 cause, you can still do this byvisiting their fashioned from “Terram”, a woven fabric, on know. JustGiving page: the hillside above Simonstone (a big thank you Timings www.justgiving.com/haygarthfamily10K to Stag fell estate for permission to use their The riders themselves around 2:00pm- To say they have now got the fitness bug is land). We are hoping to create this on June 29th 2:30pm, The Caravan from around 11.00am, Bainbridge and District Motor Club an understatement! Mike is completing in and we need some volunteers to help create this this is when the crowds will start to wait for Rally the Great Manchester Swim on 19th July and giant “Art Attack” - if you can lend a hand that the cyclists. We would therefore urge anyone Mike and Stuart will hopefully be competing day please get in touch. that wants to watch the caravan to get to A glorious sunny night on Wednesday 18th in the Birmingham 10K towards the end of Estimated visitor numbers range from 10,000 their preferred place very early that morning. June was the perfect weather for the rally the year through to 40,000. We have been asked to pass Please try to encourage anyone that you which was organised by Luke Metcalfe and on the following information to as many people know to make their way to their preferred Dave Scarr. This rally was held to raise as we can about what to expect on the day itself viewing place as early as possible to avoid money for Askrigg Playgroup so we appreci- NSPCC but please bear in mind that things may change disappointment. ate the parents that came along to support. The NSPCC event will take place in Red- at any time depending on when people actually Crowd Control The rally was mainly based around Garsdale mire on Saturday 26th July between 2.00 arrive in the area. This is high on the organiser’s agenda. They and Dentdale which is true Luke territory! We and 4.00pm. Route road closures: have particular concerns about the “pinch also ventured back into Wensleydale through There will be stalls and teas. An abundance of signage is now erected to points” that may occur between Hawes Gayle and Burtersett before heading back to indicate clearly where the roads will closed and Town centre and Town foot when people the pub; marker boards were very sneakily Mystery picture. Last month’s was of the full details can be found on this website: start to make their way down to the race placed on the route round and questions in the www.northyorkshire.gov.uk. route at Town foot. To help with this a team villages were to be answered, most cars man- large house behind Hardraw. Car Parking of around 250 volunteers have been as- aged to completed the rally but one did end up Where are we now? For those of you who live along the route and signed to the area to help control the crowds in Ingleton and doing approx 30 miles more normally park a vehicle on the road, and only if and ensure that everyone remain as safe as then they should have done! it is on the road itself, you are likely to be possible. . It was a most enjoyable night and the eligible for a “residents parking pass” that will Medical provision weather certainly helped. The next rally which allow you to park in the top car park adjacent to We have been assured that we will have is on the 16th July, will be organised by Mike the school which has been designated for this sufficient cover in the Upper Dales; it looks Percival and Chloe Billingham. use by Richmondshire District Council. like we will have a number of ambulances Please get in touch if you need a pass but you stationed in Hawes and Simonstone and if Emma Thwaite will need to provide proof that the vehicle is any ambulances are required we have

28 28 Tour de France– More Details The remaining spaces in that car park will be assurances that they will be able to use the race Running for Charity available for business in the town to use on a route if they have to. Mike, Rachel and Stuart Haygarth competed Very soon you will see “event guides” popping first come first serve basis, again please get Volunteers in the City of Manchester 10K on Sunday up at shops and businesses that will give full in touch if you need one for that Saturday. If you wish to be a part of the event on the day 18th May. They ran for Macmillan Cancer details of the activities that are planned over the Mobile phone coverage we are constantly looking for volunteers to Support, a charity very close to them as Mar- weekend, please get in touch if you would like For the TDF event we are aware of at least help with various aspects of organisation on garet, their mother, has recently undergone to have some copies to distribute. one provider (O2) who will be erecting the Friday and Saturday. If you are interested treatment for cancer. The support offered by We have been working hard to host a variety temporary antennae to cope with the please get in touch; see contact details below. Macmillan to the family has been invaluable. of events including our very own bike trail additional demand but depending on actual After the event As others in the race would confess, it was (please see the separate piece about this), other numbers of visitors it is still possible that I’m sure that the day itself will be like no a blisteringly hot day and not ideal to run in events include music to suit every taste, coverage will be patchy. other, and we will all be inconvenienced in temperatures exceeding 25 degrees! If only children’s activities and a number of market Security some way or another but I am certain that we the city had lived up to its reputation and stalls. Security and first aid provision has been put will give the spectators our usual fantastically provided some much needed rain to cool The live music will start at 7.00pm on Friday in place for all of the events planned in the warm Yorkshire welcome and a day to them down! 4th July in the Penny Garth Café and finish town and most of the pubs. Whilst we don’t remember so that they choose to visit the area They just wanted to take this opportunity around 11.00pm. From 9.00am on Saturday 5th expect any particular issues, with the number over the coming years. to thank friends and family for all the kind Hawes town centre will host a number of of people that are expected to arrive there Finally I hope that you will join me in words of encouragement and support, as well market stalls and children’s activities with live still may be an element of “opportunistic” thanking all those who have helped with all as the great many donations that have been music starting again around 6.00pm through to crime so thought should be given to just the preparations, giving up hours or days, to received. midnight. We still have space for a few more double checking that you don’t leave any put on an event that we will all remember for To date, with money already raised and market stalls so if you know anyone who valuables on show and things like charity years to come. Here’s to July 5th! sponsors promised, the total is very near may be interested please let us know. collection tins are adequately secured. If Griff Thomas £2000. THANK YOU! We have just obtained permission from anyone who hasn’t already got provision in HHA TDF Committee Chairman If you wish to donate to this very worthy Natural England to create a temporary bicycle place would like some security please let us [email protected] 01969 666111 cause, you can still do this byvisiting their fashioned from “Terram”, a woven fabric, on know. JustGiving page: the hillside above Simonstone (a big thank you Timings www.justgiving.com/haygarthfamily10K to Stag fell estate for permission to use their The riders themselves around 2:00pm- To say they have now got the fitness bug is land). We are hoping to create this on June 29th 2:30pm, The Caravan from around 11.00am, Bainbridge and District Motor Club an understatement! Mike is completing in and we need some volunteers to help create this this is when the crowds will start to wait for Rally the Great Manchester Swim on 19th July and giant “Art Attack” - if you can lend a hand that the cyclists. We would therefore urge anyone Mike and Stuart will hopefully be competing day please get in touch. that wants to watch the caravan to get to A glorious sunny night on Wednesday 18th in the Birmingham 10K towards the end of Estimated visitor numbers range from 10,000 their preferred place very early that morning. June was the perfect weather for the rally the year through to 40,000. We have been asked to pass Please try to encourage anyone that you which was organised by Luke Metcalfe and on the following information to as many people know to make their way to their preferred Dave Scarr. This rally was held to raise as we can about what to expect on the day itself viewing place as early as possible to avoid money for Askrigg Playgroup so we appreci- NSPCC but please bear in mind that things may change disappointment. ate the parents that came along to support. The NSPCC event will take place in Red- at any time depending on when people actually Crowd Control The rally was mainly based around Garsdale mire on Saturday 26th July between 2.00 arrive in the area. This is high on the organiser’s agenda. They and Dentdale which is true Luke territory! We and 4.00pm. Route road closures: have particular concerns about the “pinch also ventured back into Wensleydale through There will be stalls and teas. An abundance of signage is now erected to points” that may occur between Hawes Gayle and Burtersett before heading back to indicate clearly where the roads will closed and Town centre and Town foot when people the pub; marker boards were very sneakily Mystery picture. Last month’s was of the full details can be found on this website: start to make their way down to the race placed on the route round and questions in the www.northyorkshire.gov.uk. route at Town foot. To help with this a team villages were to be answered, most cars man- large house behind Hardraw. Car Parking of around 250 volunteers have been as- aged to completed the rally but one did end up Where are we now? For those of you who live along the route and signed to the area to help control the crowds in Ingleton and doing approx 30 miles more normally park a vehicle on the road, and only if and ensure that everyone remain as safe as then they should have done! it is on the road itself, you are likely to be possible. . It was a most enjoyable night and the eligible for a “residents parking pass” that will Medical provision weather certainly helped. The next rally which allow you to park in the top car park adjacent to We have been assured that we will have is on the 16th July, will be organised by Mike the school which has been designated for this sufficient cover in the Upper Dales; it looks Percival and Chloe Billingham. use by Richmondshire District Council. like we will have a number of ambulances Please get in touch if you need a pass but you stationed in Hawes and Simonstone and if Emma Thwaite will need to provide proof that the vehicle is any ambulances are required we have

29 29 Take a Seat Thornton Rust Village Institute If you have walked through Gayle recently, Saturday and Sunday July 5th and 6th 10.00am to 4.00pm you may have noticed that a new wooden Bacon, bangers, beef burgers in baps, seat has appeared at the end of the hot and cold drinks; eat in or take away. bridge .It has been donated by Gayle La- All welcome dies, as was the previous one which had become beyond repair. Cleaner Required Next year is the 50th Anniversary of St Oswald's Church in Askrigg. Gayle Ladies (yes, it really is that long!) Two hours per week and payment will and the plan was to replace the seat then, be £15. The work can be undertaken at but we recently heard that local retired a time to suit, dependent of course, joiner Chris Heseltine had one that we upon services and church events . could buy so decided to replace it this year. For further information, or to apply, The old seat was well-used by locals and please contact the Parish Office on 65080. visitors alike and we’re sure the new one will be too, whether to rest weary feet, OFFICE VACANCY (Hawes): take in the view or just sit and have a natter Unexpected vacancy for a full-time and put the world to rights! Secretary at the Ropeworks. 37.5 hour Brenda Peacock, for Gayle Ladies week; salary £15,000-£18,000 according to qualifications and experience. Initial enquir- ies to Peter and Ruth Annison 650349 Hawes 1st Brownies (day or evening). Tuesday July 8th 6.00 to 7.30pm Drop-off points and contacts Coffee evening, stalls and raffle at the for news, articles, reports, letters, what’s on dates, competition entries, suggestions and Market Hall. All welcome comments: Hawes: Alan S. Watkinson, Aysgarth Garage Burnside Coach House. 667785 Now Recruiting! Gayle: Sarah Champion - Fully Skilled Mechanics/MOT Testers 23, Little Ings 667006 - Apprentice Mechanic Bainbridge: Sylvia Crookes, 3, Bainside 650525 - Part time shop/fuel forecourt assistants Askrigg: Rima Berry, 8 Mill Lane 650980 Excellent working conditions and Carperby: Margaret Woodcock, prospects for the right candidates. Bella Cottage 663488 Please send full C.V. to: West Burton: Nadine Bell, Margaret’s Cottage 663559 Aysgarth Garage, Aysgarth, Aysgarth: Hamilton’s Tearoom 663423 Leyburn, DL8 3AD Redmire: see Carperby above or email to: Thoralby: Sandra Foley, Shop 663205 [email protected]

AUDREY STRINGER of ASKRIGG would like to thank all her friends and neighbours for their good wishes and kindness to her while in hospital recently.

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